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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

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

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Circular silver medal

1718

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Silver medal to commemorate M.L.B. Doye

1716

Copper medal

1716

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Bronze medal to commemorate M.P. Hecquet

1713

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Medal, copper, commemorating A. Doute

1718

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

1713

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Half-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Coin of Clement XI

1704

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XIV (France)

1711

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

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

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Albarello vase

1716

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914