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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Nested Troy cup weights

1800-1825

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Guinea balance, to weigh gold guineas

1800-1810

Steelyard-type chondrometer in case

1790-1797

Steelyard type guinea balance (Merlin type)

1810

Coin balance, with nested brass cup wts and circular brass coin wts, in mahogany box

1780-1782

Wilkinson Folding Guinea balance

1785-1801

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Charles Babbage

1833

Brown stoneware drug jar

1816-1837

Brown stoneware drug jar

1816-1837

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Silver tongue scraper, London, England, 1827

1827

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Piece of cloth from Edward Jenner's coffin, United Kingdom, 1823

1823

Scales, brass beam and pans

1800-1820

Wooden model of a Harrison's grid-iron pendulum

1829

Brass disc fitted with glass handle and small brass discharging sphere

1828

Microscope by Oberhauser

1830

logarithmic scale

1800-1805

1 Convexo convex lens

1790-1819

Plaster mould, Priestess pouring libations on altar

1790-1819

Plaster cast of dolphin

1790-1819

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Valve from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Fitting from the model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Hot Goose, Cabbage & Cucumbers

1823

Print, coloured. Caricature. He Steers his Flight aloft

1810

Etching-coloured: `Opposition Telegraphs'

1798

Engraving. `View of the Telegraph erected on The Admiralty Office'. Published by S.W. Fores

1796

'The Scavenger's Lament', caricature, print, London, England, 1829

1829

Etching-coloured: `The Dissolution or The Archymist producing an Aetherial Representation'

1796

Ascent from Dijon in 1784

1784-1820

Print, Caricature. Embrasement Deplorable de la Machine Aerostatique de o Srs. Nicolan et Janinet le Dimanche 11 Juillet

1784

Balloon ascending from the Chateau de la Luette. Engraving by Esnauts and Rapilly

1783

The Aerostatick Stage Balloon

1783

Ascent of the 19th September 1783, at Versailles

1783

Print, Alarme generale des habitans de Gonesse occasionne par la chute balloon aerostatique de M. de Montgolfier

1783

Water-colour, oval, contemporary. Montgolfier at Annonay

1783