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Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

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

1785

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Mrs. Sage

1785

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

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

1786

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.

1786

Dover Castle with the setting-off of the balloon to Calais

1785

The Flying Ship

1785

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Du Globe Aerostatique

1785

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

1972-3

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

1990-95

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Silver medal commemorating surgeon

1787

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE