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Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

Weights and measures

1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

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

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Observations taken at a small water mill at Hitchin

1809 Sept 14

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

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

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

Silver vinaigrette

1805

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Slate quarry near Bangor

1807

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

Rod from the model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808

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

1805

Painted green glass liquor bottle

1804

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Fitting from the model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808

The Costume of Great Britain: Welsh peasants

1805

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Wrestler's belt presented in Cumberland

1803

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

2000 BCE

Matthew Boulton

1803

Copper(?) Freemason medal, French(?) 1807

1807