Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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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

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

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

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

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

2000 BCE

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

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

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1682

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1680

Five Guinea coin of William and Mary

1691

Five Guinea coin of James II

1687

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Large bronze medal commemorating Francisco Redi

1684

Large gilt bronze medal

1684