Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Oil paintings

1769

Transit telescope

1770

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

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Solar microscope (dated 1770) signed B.MARTIN INVT ET FECIT LONDINI NO 34

1770

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Figure-8 Microscope (c.1770)

1770

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Coade Stone fragment

1769

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Silver medal

1771

Silver medal

1771

Copper medal to commemorate I.G.G. Orlov

1771

Silver medal to commemorate the recovery of the Empress Maria Theresa

1767

Silver medal commemorating the recovery from illness of Maria Theresa

1767

Silver medal to commemorate Pierre Bercher

1767

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Optical cabinet made by B. Martin about 1771

1771

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1767

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

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

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500