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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

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Quarter-repeating watch by Thomas Mudge

1755

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

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

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