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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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

5 lancets

1744

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

1990-95

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

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

2000 BCE

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

One tavi

1742

Medal, copper, of Dean Pierre-Jean Baptiste Chomel of Paris Medical Faculty

1740

Copper medal

1742

Copper medal

1742

Bronze medal celebrating Louis XV's return to health after an illness

1744

Bronze medal

1747-1749

Silver medal to commemorate Elias col de Vilars

1741

Medal, silver, commemorating Jean Baptiste Chomel

1740

Small silver medal with reeded edge

1748

Medal, silver, commemorating Elias Col de Vilars

1744

Portrait. Sir Samuel Garth. Engraving 1748

1748

Timber-measuring slide rule

1742

Compound drum microscope

1740

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Cast bronze medal commemorating Robert Barker

1744

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Bronze medal commemorative of an event or situation appertaining to Soissons in 1743

1743

Medal, copper, commemorating Elie Col de Vilars

1742