Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

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

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

George III's double-barrelled 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 Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's model crriage body

1762

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

George III's glass sphere

1761

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Mezzotint. Portrait of John Dollond. F.R.S. by J.R

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Two Reales of Carlos III

1761

Quarter-Guinea coin of George III

1762

Quarter-Sovereign coin of George III

1762

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE