Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

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

1705-1737

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

George III's glass sphere

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Sovereign coin of George III

1762

Quarter-Guinea coin of George III

1762

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Portable horizontal sundial in slate

1762

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE