Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

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

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

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

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

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

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

Small Austrian balance

1700-1710

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 of the University of Paris

1699

Bronze medal to commemorate M.P. Hecquet

1713

medal, copper, commemorating M.Ph.Hecquet as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

1713

One foot folding carpenter's rule, brass, c. 1700

1698-1703

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Coin of Clement XI

1704

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XIV (France)

1711

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Guinea coin of Queen Anne

1713

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Stamped nocturnal

1713

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

White metal medal

1703

Large bronze medal commemorating L.A. Verrazzano of Florentine Hospital of the Innocent

1713

Bronze medal

1704

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

1701

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350