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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Votive plaque

1690

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

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Votive plaque

1698

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1676

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Spring-driven pendulum clock by Johannes van Ceulen of The Hague, c. 1695

1670-1680

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Large bronze bell-shaped mortar

1678

Tall thin bronze mortar

1675

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

Small bell-shaped mortar

1677

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

2000 BCE

Carpenter's bevel, dated 1671

1671

Bronze medal by Ferdinand St. Urbain commemorating Marcello Malpighi

1693

Grano bronze coin

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

Medal, copper, of Dean Antonius Le Moine

1676

Medal, copper, of Antonius Le Moine

1678

Medal, copper, of Dean Anthony Johannes Morand, of

1676

Circular bronze medal commemorating Franciscus Redi

1684

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Urban Hiarne, playwr

1682

Small silver with ribbed edge

1683

Screw barrelled microscope, rosewood, gilt brass stand

1680-1690

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

1686

Guinea coin of Charles II

1684

Schilling coin of Christian V (of Denmark and Norway)

1681

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691