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

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

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

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Portrait. Sir Samuel Garth. Engraving 1748

1748

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Engraving: plans of London Bridge

1746

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Engraving, A First View of Practical Chymistry

1747

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

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

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

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

5 lancets

1744

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

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