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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Weights and measures

1805

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

circa 1800

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

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

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'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

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

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

1800

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1806

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

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

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1801

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Iron Works, Colebrook Dale

1805