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Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

1712

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Gold touchpiece

1702-1714

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Standard bronze pint measure, City of London, 1702-1714

1702-1714

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Medal, silver, of the merchant grocers and apothecaries of France

1710

Bronze(?) medal, commemorates A. Doute(?), Dean of

1718

Bronze medal commemorating the Royal Academy of Science

1716

Bronze token for supplier of drugs in Paris(?), ar

1706

Reeded silver token advertising merchants

1710

Copper medal

1713

Medal, grocers spicers and apothecaries of Paris

1710