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Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

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

1778

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

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

1705-1737

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

View of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1783

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

1782-1784

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

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

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

The First Ascent of a Hydrogen Balloon from the Tuillerie

1783

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1778

Guinea coin of George III

1779

Guinea coin of George III

1776

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Guinea coin of George III

1777