Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Brass pill divider

1712

Lancet case

1718

Medal to commemorate Philip, Baron de Stosch

1727

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

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

1718

18th Century Gold Doubloon coin (Portugal)

1728

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Half-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XIV (France)

1711

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XV (France)

1728

Franc coin of Louis XV (France)

1727

DobrĂ£o coin of Joannes V (Portugal)

1729

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Five Guinea coin of George I

1726

Five Guinea coin of George II

1729

Half-Guinea coin of Queen Anne

1713

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Combination microscope set

1715-1725

Stamped nocturnal

1713

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

medal, silver, diamond shape

1718

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719

Medal, silver, diamond shaped

1712

Medal commemorating siege of Hamburg

1714

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Leather case containing 4 unidentified instruments

1722

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350