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

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Armillary Sphere and Planetarium, 1731.

1731

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

Culpeper microscope with boxfoot made by George Adams in 1738

1738

Working model of John Wyatt's original Cart-Weighing machine

1741

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Medal, silver, commemorating St. Roch

1744

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Metal three bladed fleam

1735-1744

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

General Roy's standard scale by Jonathan Sisson, 1742

1742

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

1738

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

John Hadley

1728

Bronze medal commemorative of an event or situation appertaining to Soissons in 1743

1743

Medal, copper, commemorating Elie Col de Vilars

1742

Medal, silver, of the Law Faculty

1747

Medal, silver, of the Academy of Surgeons

1723