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Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Ear trumpet

1752

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

5 lancets

1744

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

1990-95

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

A Chain Bridge

1753

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Six ivory balls

1750

Level by Benjamin Cole

1750

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

1740

Trade Bill Le Sr. Magny

1750

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

One tavi

1742

One cinquina

1752

Medal, copper, of Dean Pierre-Jean Baptiste Chomel of Paris Medical Faculty

1740