Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1710

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Reeded silver token advertising merchants

1710

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1713

Medal, grocers spicers and apothecaries of Paris

1710

White metal medal to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the University of Leipzig

1709

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze medal to commemorate M.P. Hecquet

1713

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Large bronze medal commemorating L.A. Verrazzano of Florentine Hospital of the Innocent

1713

Medal commemorating siege of Hamburg

1714

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

1713

Medal, silver, diamond shaped

1712

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XIV (France)

1711

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Guinea coin of Queen Anne

1713

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Stamped nocturnal

1713

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Trade card: Samuel Newton

1710

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933