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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

circa 1800

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Compass

1800

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

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

1850-1899

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

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

3000-2500 BCE

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Capt. Joseph Huddart, FRS

1801

Aquatint, coloured; The Aqueduct Bridge

1801

Portrait print from engraving of Leonard Euler, 1804

1804

Fete du Sacre et Couronnement de leurs Majestes Imperiales

1804-1805

Ralph Walker

1803

Matthew Boulton

1801

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

2000 BCE

Matthew Boulton

1803

Engraving, two portrait vignettes

1801

Bronze medal celebrating Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccination

1800

John Joseph Merlin, the Celebrated Mechanic

1803

Circular bronze medal

1803

Portrait. Rev. Dr. Stephen Hales. Engraving 1800

1800

Bronze medal of Luigi Sacco

1802

Siege de la Colonne de Pompee

1799

Gilt metal

1805

Bronze medal

1803