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Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

1801

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

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

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

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

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

1990-95

Duplex watch in case

1800-1806

Silver vinaigrette

1805

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Portrait: engraving

1801

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Box containing "geometrical solids"

1800

Slate quarry near Bangor

1807

Portrait: engraving

1806

Compound monocular microscope in case

1800-1807

Commemorative plate

1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50