Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Cutter, Alert

1755

Section of track

1745-1755

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Flax Spinning Wheel

1745-1755

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

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

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Pewter bleeding bowl

1752

Sterlng silver gilt bleeding bowl

1746

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Pap boat

1746

Brass Clarke's hydrometer

1755

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

1990-95

Plaque showing dental and surgical operations, Europe, 1801-1900

1300-1700; 1801-1900

Pocket Stop Watch in Gold Case by George Graham, 1730-1748

1730-1748

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE