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

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

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

Wooden backstaff.

1733

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Circular bronze medal

1743

Circular white metal medal

1736-1740

Bronze medal to commemorate J.M. Martellini

1734

medal, silver, diamond shape

1718

Clinical Thermometer by Alexander Wilson, 1735-1745

1735-1745

Glass Trough (c. 1730) similar to M.6 (1993-1317) but without foot

1730

Timber-measuring slide rule

1742

Compound drum microscope

1740

18th Century Gold Doubloon coin (Portugal)

1728

Guinea coin of George II

1736

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Half-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Quarter-Guinea coin of George I

1718

Peseta coin of Philip V (Spanish South American)

1730

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XV (France)

1728

Franc coin of Louis XV (France)

1727

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

Dobrão coin of Joannes V (Portugal)

1729

Gold 18th Century Coin with Crown and Palm Tree Symbols

1730

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE