Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

1705-1737

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Portable microscope by George Lindsay

1743

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

Circular bronze medal

1743

Timber-measuring slide rule

1742

Compound drum microscope

1740

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

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

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

20-500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Set of 3 pocket instruments

1742

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

5 lancets

1744

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Solar microscope (c.1740)

1740

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

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931