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Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

1808

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

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

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Silhouette of man

circa 1810

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

William Woodville, M.D. F.R.S. Author of Medical Botany

1806

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Simple microscope in turned rosewood case (c.1810)

1810

Davy's large electrolysis trough, 1810, replica

1810

Silver medal commemorating Joseph Ignace Guillotin

1807-1810

Joseph Wright

1807

Fire at the Albion Mills, Blackfriars Bridge on 3 March 1791

1808

Billingsgate Market

1808

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Aquatint, coloured, Water Engine

1808

The Kentish Hop Merchant and the Lecturer on Optics

1809

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Engraving of David Hume

1806

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Engraving of Strand Bridge

1808

Portrait: engraving

1806

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

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

Etching, The Triumph of Gas Lights

1810