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

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

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

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719

Circular bronze medal

1721

Circular silver medal

1718

Bronze Louis XV medal commemorating the revival or re-creation of the Academy in 1719

1719

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Silver medal to commemorate M.L.B. Doye

1716

Copper medal

1716

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1722

Silver medal of the Academy of Surgery

1723

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Medal, copper, commemorating A. Doute

1718

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Half-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Model of Newsham's pump piston

1721

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350