Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Compass plane

1717

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

Trade card: Mr. Dillon

1722

Trade card: B. Scott & C. Price

1718

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

1710

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

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

Roman stone water main

30

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800

Circular silver medal

1718

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Lancet case

1718

Silver bleeding bowl

1704

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

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

1990-95

5" brass octagonal table clock with glass sides

early 17th century onwards

Pocket Watch in Triple Case by Quare, 1705-1720

1705-1720

Universal pocket sundial

1701-1721

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Repeating Pocket Watch by Daniel Quare, 1705-1715

1705-1715

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Silver touchpiece

1701-1715

Silver touchpiece probably issued by James III, the 'Old Pretender'

1715-1716

Slide-rule, 12-inch, boxwood

1713

Leather case for Slide-rule

1713

Leather case containing 4 unidentified instruments

1722

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving, `Befeuchtet zu Leuchten'. An oil lamp. Nuremberg

1709