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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

Weights and measures

1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

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

Silver vinaigrette

1805

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Slate quarry near Bangor

1807

Portrait: engraving

1806

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1805

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

The Costume of Great Britain: Welsh peasants

1805

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

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

1807

Gilt bronze medal

1805

Bronze medal commemorating the new workhouse at Genoa

1806

Small bronze medal by Galle commemorating Xavier Bichat founder of Societe Medicale d' aemulation de Paris

1807

Bronze medal commemorating Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1807

Bronze token

1807

Two silver medals to commemorate F.J. Gall

1805

Silver medal

1807

Joseph Wright

1807

Reproduction in alabaster, "Dr Black 1807 Scr."

1807

Reproduction in boxwood, "Dr Black 1808 Scr."

1807

Plaster mould, male profile

1807