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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Silhouette of a woman

circa 1810

Franc or Italian Lira coin of Napoleon I

1810

Quarter-franc coin of Napoleon I (Italian)

1812

1811 CATTLE AND BARBER ONE SHILLING TOKEN (York)

1811

Twenty Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1812

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1811

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Going-barrel keyless cylinder watch movement

1810

China Making. Print (105mm x 187mm)

1812

Implements Animated

1811

Two hundred years hence, or, an aerial ship taking in passengers

1833-02

Etching, The Triumph of Gas Lights

1810

Water-colour. Mr. Sadler's balloon ascent at Hackney

1811

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Trade card: Cornelius Varley

1811

A view of the balloon of Mr. Sadler's ascending with Captain Paget

1811

Trade card: Cornelius Varley

1811

Simple microscope in turned rosewood case (c.1810)

1810

Solar microscope with rack barrel objective

1890-1810

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400