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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait print from engraving of Charles Mahon, Earl Stanhope, 1798

1798

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Portrait, William Walker

1798

Aquatint: A view of the French raft

1798

Alexr. Aubert, Esqr, F.R.S.

1798

Siege de la Colonne de Pompee

1799

Gilt bronze medal with hole through middle

1799

Bronze medal

1798

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Print, John Smeaton. Civil Engineer. F.R.S.

1798

The Patent Gymnasticon

1798

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1798

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Improvements in Weights & Measures

1798

J. P. de Loutherbourgh, Esqr., R.A.

1798

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

An Iron Foundery, Colebrook Dale

1799

Thomas Earnshaw

1798

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967