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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

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

1802

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

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

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Engraving, mezzotint, The Earl of Chesterfield's State Carriage

1800

Copper matrix

1800

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Jointed rope-maker's slide rule

1802

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1800

Onza de Oro or Eight Scudos coin of Carlos IV (Spain)

1800

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Spode"

circa 1800

"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)

1800

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Box containing "geometrical solids"

1800

Letterpress broadsheet : Monsieur Garnerin's Wonderful Descent by a Parachute

1802

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Commemorative plate

1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Horizontal and analemmatic sundial

1800

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Medal to commemorate Sacco

1802

Hollow clay tile, from R.A.F. Stanmore Park, 1800

1800

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Engraving, two portrait vignettes

1801

Bronze medal celebrating Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccination

1800