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Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Weights and measures

1805

Half-penny coin

1806

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Half-penny coin

1806

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Stone Sleeper, Croyden & Merstham Iron Railway

1805

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

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

1805

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

1805

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

1805

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

1807

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Trevithick locomotive drawings and frames

circa 1804

Stone Sleeper, Croyden & Merstham Iron Railway

1805

Stone Sleeper, Croyden & Merstham Iron Railway

1805

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

Silver vinaigrette

1805

silver vinaigrette

1804

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

Daisy

1864-04

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Lithograph 'Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits showing the Floating of the Second Tube, 1849'

1850-07

table of rates and charges

1857/07

Gilt bronze medal

1805

Silver medal by Abraham Abramson commemorating lectures in Berlin of Dr. Joseph Gall

1805