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Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Lantern clock by Peter Closon

1650-1660

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Black and white enamel verge watch by Goullons, Paris

1650

Watch with enamel portrait believed to be of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693)

1650

Watch in a painted enamel case by Paul Roumieu

1650

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Silver watch by Thomas Taylor

1658

Silver watch with sytlised pomegranate case by Edward East

1650

Silver clock-watch by Henricus Mott

1660

Pair-cased watch with astronomical indications by Henry Childe

1650

Egg-shaped watch by James Nellson

1660

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Clay tobacco pipe

1650-1660

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Brass equinoctial ring dial

1660

Pocket watch with silver on case

1655-1665

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE