Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

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

Verge watch by Johannes van Ceulen of the Hague, 1690-1700.

1690-1700.

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

Italian albarello vase

1700

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Large bronze mortar

1700

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700

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 of the University of Paris

1699

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of William and Mary

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Tin glazed earthenware albarello bearing a monasti

1701-800

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931