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Date

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham

1750

Watch in a porcelain case by J Grantham

1750

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Portable microscope by George Lindsay

1743

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

English tin-glazed earthenware pharmacy jar

1750

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Protractor and parallel rule combined

1740-1750

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Apothecaires' balance, with weights, in fish-skin covered case, 1750

1750

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Copy of an Egyptian bas-relief, Europe, 1801-1930

1801-1930

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

20-500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Six ivory balls

1750

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350