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

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

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

1802

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Compass

1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Half-penny coin

1799

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

1705-1737

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

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

1801

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1801

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

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

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Aquatint print of design of cast iron bridge by Thomas Telford, 1801

1801

shadow ball

1800s

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

1850-1899

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

2000-100 BCE

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

Model of stern of vessel fitted with screw propell

1800-1802

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

3000-2500 BCE

Gilt bronze medal with hole through middle

1799

Bronze medal commemorating public health under the first French Republic

1800

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE