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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

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 Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1788

Mrs. Sage

1785

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

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

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

1705-1737

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Circular silver medal

1786

Silver medal commemorating the founding of the Frisian Academy

1785

Yellow metal (copper ?) medal, Deans medal of Pari

1787

Medal, silver, commemorating Edmond-Claude Bourru

1788

Medal commemorating foundation of hospital for free education of 12 boys and 12 girls through generosity of Louis XVI

1784

Medal, silver, possibly advertising trade token for Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786

Circular silver medal

1787

Circular silver medal

1783-1788

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal commemorating Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1786

Medal commemorating Joseph Priestley

1783

Bronze medal

1783

Circular bronze medal

1786

Circular bronze medal

1784

Circular silver medal

1783

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Medal commemorating Joseph Priestley

1783

Print: etching

1787

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Silver medal commemorating the Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786