Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Bronze medal commemorating the recovery to health of King Louis XIV in 1686

1686

Medal commemorating the return to health of Louis XIV in 1687

1687

Bronze medal

1687

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

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

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

1686

Votive plaque

1690

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160