Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

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

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Mrs. Sage

1785

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Medal, silver, commemorating some operation for the King by Johann Chr. Ant. Theden

1787

Silver medal commemorating surgeon

1787

Circular silver medal

1787

Medal commemorating Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1786

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Albarello vase

1788

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

1972-3

Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle

1784

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)

1786

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Token - JOHN WILKINSON IRON MASTER

1788

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Sun-dial, analemmatic, inscribed

1784

Silver vinaigrette

1786

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Print: etching

1787

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE