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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

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

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

1990-95

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Painted green glass liquor bottle

1804

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

1802

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Medal to commemorate Sacco

1802

Wrestler's belt presented in Cumberland

1803

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Matthew Boulton

1803

Circular bronze medal

1803

Portrait. Erasmus Darwin. Engraving 1803

1803

Medal, bronze, of the "Societe Galvanique et de Rech. Physiq."

1802

Jointed rope-maker's slide rule

1802

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Bronze medal of Luigi Sacco

1802

Bronze medal, commemorates A. Sacco, artist Tadoli

1802

Silver plated bronze medal to commemorate Giam Bal

1802

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Lead (?) medal to commemorate Aloysius Galvani, by

1803

Silver medal

1804

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Ell Rod, European, 1802

1802

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

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

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931