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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

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

1807

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

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

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1808

Weights and measures

1805

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

1802

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

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

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1801

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Model of a Section of the Pont-y-Cysyllte Aqueduct, 1805

1805

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933