Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Empty wooden case, varnished, inscribed H.L.1772

1772

Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast

1775

Silver medal

1771

Six-fold linear measure, bone, Spanish, 1776

1776

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1778

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1773

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1772

Two Reales coin of Charles III (Spain)

1774

Guinea coin of George III

1776

Guinea coin of George III

1774

Guinea coin of George III

1775

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Guinea coin of George III

1773

Four Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1774

Two Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1773

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Onza de Oro or Eight Scudos coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1778

Two Denari coin of Victor Amadeus II (King of Sardinia)

1774

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Doctor Cullen

1772

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Optical cabinet made by B. Martin about 1771

1771

Silver medal commemorating a terrible flood of 20 and 21st November 1776 but location unknown

1776-1777

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Votive plaque

1772

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950