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

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

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

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

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

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Circular bronze medal

1721

One grano, bronze coin, associated with Grand Master of the Knights of Malta

1726

Bronze medal commemorating Louis XV

1728

Copper medal

1722

Silver medal of the Academy of Surgery

1723

18th Century Gold Doubloon coin (Portugal)

1728

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XV (France)

1728

Franc coin of Louis XV (France)

1727

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of George I

1726

Five Guinea coin of George II

1729

DobrĂ£o coin of Joannes V (Portugal)

1729

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

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

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931