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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
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Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Watch, verge movement

1675

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Booklet describing Verle's anatomical eye, Italy, 1679

1679

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Anatomical model of the eye with a descriptive booklet in a leather case, Italian, 1674-1679

1674-1679

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Flint weight, Syrian Khoirine system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Surveying quadrant, 1674.

1674

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Black haematite Syrian weight, barrel shaped, from Gaza, Phoenician system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Albarello, earthenware, tin-glazed

1701-180

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

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

1880-120

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1676

Two washers

15/7/27

Case of Dutch Jeweller's Scales and Carat weights

1676

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE