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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

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale

1816

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

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Lancet case

1819-1820

Brass Sikes hydrometer by R.B. Bate

1816

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

1990-95

Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner

circa 1820

Silver vinaigrette

1818

S.Smith's escapement

1812

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Toothbrush, silver, by I

1814

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Mr. Sadler

1815

Set of money scales in sharkskin case

1820

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Musical cryptographic device

1812

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule

1814

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Spherical model part

1812-1813

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820