Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

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

1778

English wooden doll

circa 1780

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1850-1899

Apothecary's balance

1778-1780

Circular instrument dividing engine

1778

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

Navigator's Gunter scale in boxwood 24" long

circa 1775

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

2000 BCE

Print, line engraving. WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

1777

Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast

1775

Silver(?) medal, possibly commemorates the ending

1776

Bronze medal with head of Catherine II on obverse

1776

Bronze medal commemorating the coronation of King Louis XVI in 1775

1775

Silver medal commemorating Jean Charles Desessartz

1778

One grano

1776

One cinquina bronze coin associated with Emmanuel de Rohan

1776

1/2 Cinquina bronze coin

1777

Bronze medal of the herbarium of Milan and Pavia

1775

Bronze ticket medal

1776-1777

Brass medal

1775

Copper medal

1775

Silver medal to commemorate the centenary of a university

1775

Silver medal to commemorate the centenary of a university

1775

Silver medal commemorating the new Quarantine regulations at Marseilles for imported cargoes

1775

Bronze prize medal awarded by university founded by M. Le Marechal de Mailly

1778

Silver medal or token designed by C.M.

1777

Silver medal commemorating the Founding of the Paris school of surgery

1775

Circular silver medal

1778

Medal, silver, commemorating the Royal School of Surgery

1775

Silver medal

1777