Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

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

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Pair of spectacles (pince nez?), silver plated brass

circa 1700

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Trade card: Thomas Tuttell

1698

Trade card: Thomas Tuttell

1698

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Italian albarello vase

1700

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Tin glazed earthenware albarello bearing a monasti

1701-800

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931