Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
John Dee's crystal, Europe, 1582
1582
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Iron artificial arm, Europe, 1560-1600
1560-1600
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole
1574
Horizontal sundial in bronze
1551
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole
1568-1590
Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588
1588
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Altitude quadrant
1552
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Stjerneborg Observatory
1634 (print); 1581-1587 (observatory)
Pestle and mortar, Egypt, 1650-1575BCE
1650-1575 BCE
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Sector by Charles Whitwell
1600-11
16th century iron chamber-clock
1596
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Working model of Hero's Aeolipile
100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914
'De humani corporis fabrica' by Vesalius, published Basel, Switerland, 1555
1555
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.
1501-1600; 1972
Small bronze bell shaped mortar
1590
Reconstruction of Galileo's Thermoscope, 1592-1600
1592-1600 (original)
Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb
1991-1783 BCE
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Bronze bell shaped mortar with 2 bands of decoration
1592
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Avoirdupois weight (standard)
1588
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
European astrolabe, 1548
1548
Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Clay tobacco pipe, London, England, 1580-1590
1580-1590
Man holding a watch
1558-1560
Genoese medicine chest
1562-1566
Hunting trousse, England, 1560-1580
1560-1580
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Elizabethan nested weights
1588
Planispheric astrolabe, 1572
1572