Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

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

1705-1737

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

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

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

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

1730; 1967

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

5 lancets

1744

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

1990-95

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Set of flat troy penny weights in fitted mahogany case

1737

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1718

A table of the Days and Months For Ever

1735-1745

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Microscope, signed MATTHEW LOFT. Culpeper type

1710-1747

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Waywiser, British, 1739

1739

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Squat bronze mortar

1730

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

Bronze bell shaped mortar

1727

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE