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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Edmund Culpeper

1720

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

1990-95

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Compass plane

1717

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Whole model rigged 20 gun ship

1719-1733

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

1727-1728

Model of Doge of Venice's State Barge, "Bucentaur"

1727-1728

Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1972

Whole rigged model of an English 50 gun ship

1722-1740

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

1725-1730

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

English glass celestial globe, 1739

1739

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

1738

Armillary Sphere and Planetarium, 1731.

1731

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE