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Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Napier's Bones

1690

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Aeolipile (c. 1680-1700)

1680-1700

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

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Large bronze mortar

1700

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

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

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Large bronze medal commemorating Francisco Redi

1684

Circular bronze medal commemorating Franciscus Redi

1684

Large gilt bronze medal

1684

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693