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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1820

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1815

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Phrenological head

1821

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

1705-1737

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Col. aquatint: Kitchen of Trinity College

1815

print; carriage design;

1816

hammer head. C.1820

1820

Tie Sleeper

1815

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Standard Bushel Measure

1819

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Marc Isambard Brunel

1815

Marc Isambard Brunel

1815

Bronze medal

1818

Bronze medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Circular gold medal

1819

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Ready reckoner, c 1820.

circa 1820

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Panoramic lantern slide

1820

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)