Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

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

1730; 1967

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

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

1880-120

Shaving bowl

1767

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

1990-95

Stop-watch movementwith cylinder escapement

1766

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

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

2000 BCE

Silver medal to commemorate the recovery of the Empress Maria Theresa

1767

Silver medal commemorating the recovery from illness of Maria Theresa

1767

Medal, silver, commemorating Pierre Bercher

1766-1768

Bronze medal

1766

Silver medal to commemorate Pierre Bercher

1767

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Goldsmith's drawplate, French, 1766

1766

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Reflecting telescope with trolly stand, 1767-1768

1767-1768

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

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Silver medal struck to commemorate the recovery of the Empress Maria Theresa

1767

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

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

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

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

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

R Lovett

1766

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Three mahogany samples, from spindle moulder machine

1791-3

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3