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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

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

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

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

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

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

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

1990-95

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

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule

1814

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Silver medal

1814

Oval silver membership medal

1815

Bronze medal

1815

Medal, gilded bronze

1814-1815

Circular silver medal with silk ribbon

1815

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Franc coin of Napoleon I (France)

1813

Franc coin of Napoleon I (France)

1813

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Dry voltaic pile, 13 inches long

1815

Dry voltaic pile, 11.5 inches long

1815

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Medal, gilt bronze

1813

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE