Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

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

1807

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Half-penny coin

1806

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Weights and measures

1805

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

1808

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Half-penny coin

1806

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal to commemorate the Italian constitution under Napoleon Bonaparte

1804

White metal medal to commemorate J. Goercke

1805

Lead (?) medal to commemorate Aloysius Galvani, by

1803

Circular, bronze medal

1806

Two silver medals to commemorate F.J. Gall

1805

Bronze medal to commemorate G.B. Morgagni (1682-17

1808

Joseph Wright

1807

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1804

Forty Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1806

Half-Guinea coin of George III

1803

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1806

Two Scudos coin of Carlos IV (Spain)

1806

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1805

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Portrait: engraving

1806

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Aquatint, coloured, from 'The Costume of Great Britain' by W.H. Pyne. pub. William Miller

1805