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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1705-1737

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

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

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1804

Half-Guinea coin of George III

1803

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Etching, col. caricature : Lunar Speculations [Napoleon]/S W Fores

1803

Aquatint, Parys Mines in 1804. By T. Cartwright after E. Pugh

1804

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

1802

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Print, coloured. Tableau. Vue Brillante de l'Aniversaire du 14 Juillet

1801

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Painted green glass liquor bottle

1804

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350