Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
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

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Wax plaque in glazed wooden frame

1701-1730

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Silver vinaigrette

1701-1730

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

Ivory and wood back scratcher

1701-1730

Lenticular, possibly early 18th century

1701-1730

Cranial trephine in form of brace and bit

1701-1730

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

1990-95

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Silver touchpiece

1701-1715

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of naked

1701-1730

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of naked

1701-1730

Silver vinaigrette

1701-1730

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1718

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Earthenware pharmacy jar

1701-1730

Squat bronze mortar

1730

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500