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Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Ebony and brass octant.

1805-1815

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

1796-1815

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809