Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

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

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

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

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

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

Culpeper-Wilson compound microscope

1730

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Pamphlet for pocket microscope by James Mann and James Ayscough

1743

Engraving: plans of London Bridge

1746

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

A table of the Days and Months For Ever

1735-1745