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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 watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Portrait engraving of William Nicholson, 1812

1812

Sepia aquatint. Pont Cysyllte aqueduct. I. Havell after E. Pugh

1814

Lithograph, A Mill at Colebrook Dale

1813

Print, Aquatint from George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Etching: Aber-dulas mill. By G. Wood. 1812

1812

Token, copper, 35mm diameter. Birmingham and South Wales Rose Copper Co penny

1812

Weybridge penny

1812

Iron Cockspur burner 1812

1812

Quarter-franc coin of Napoleon I (Italian)

1812

Twenty Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1812

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Franc coin of Napoleon I (France)

1813

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Franc coin of Napoleon I (France)

1813

Synoptic scale of "Chemical Equivalents"

1814

China Making. Print (105mm x 187mm)

1812

Coloured aquatint, Radcliffe Observatory

1814

Print, The Fortress which enclosed the Grand Pavillion in the Green Park with the ascent of the balloon

1814

Print, Coloured. The Tower and preparations of the Fire Works with the balloon. In Park

1814

Print, plain. Grand Fete. St. James's Park

1814

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Musical cryptographic device

1812

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule

1814