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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Weights and measures

1805

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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1805

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

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

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

1801

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1801

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

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 with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

shadow ball

1800s

Regulating Throttle Cocks

1804

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

1883-01

Tableau Analytique de differentes positions de la sphere

1800-1805

Framed photograph of Robert Fulton's original design for steamboat

1803-1950

Model of stern of vessel fitted with screw propell

1800-1802

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Aquatint, coloured; The Aqueduct Bridge

1801

Fete du Sacre et Couronnement de leurs Majestes Imperiales

1804-1805

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

Circular bronze medal

1803