Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck
1730
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
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 Newcomen engine model
1720
Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers
1725
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
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
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Microscope (c.1730)
1730
Microscope (c.1738)
1738
Microscope (c.1730)
1730
Microscope (c.1740)
1740
Waywiser, British, 1739
1739
Lead-glazed earthenware albarello
1736
Squat bronze mortar
1730
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
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
Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.
1720
One grano coin
1736
Engraving: Portrait of William Harvey MD (1578-1657)/Houbraken
1739
Circular bronze medal
1721
One carlino
1734
One grano, bronze coin, associated with Grand Master of the Knights of Malta
1726
Bronze coin
1734
Medal, copper, of Dean Pierre-Jean Baptiste Chomel of Paris Medical Faculty
1740
Bronze medal commemorating Louis XV
1728
Copper medal
1732
Copper medal
1722
Bronze medal
1731
Silver medal of the Academy of Surgery
1723
Medal, silver, commemorating Jean Baptiste Chomel
1740