Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

George III's glass sphere

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's model crriage body

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 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)

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

King George III's archimedean screw

1762

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Apparatus for filling barometer tube

1761

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

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

1880-120

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE