Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Brass medal

1758

Bronze prize medal

1758

Bronze medal

1759

Commemorative medal

1759

Medal, one sided

1758

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Nested gunmetal Troy Counterpoises

1758

Carpenter's sliding joint-rule by I Trafford

1772

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Silver Coin of Augustus III (Poland)

1760

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Upright microscope (c.1760)

1760

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Drum component for volute compass

1760

Drum component for volute compass

1760

Drum component for volute compass

1760

Drum component for volute compass

1760

Drum component for volute compass

1760

Etching of Benjamin Franklin

1759

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

'A view of Mr Mylne's elegant Design of a new bridge'

1760

Three mahogany samples, from spindle moulder machine

1791-3

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Lord Carysfort's Committee's set 4 of rectangular bronze cubic measures with two adjustable stands

1758

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967