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Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

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

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

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

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Mrs. Sage

1785

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Morse Code Signal Lamp

1785

'A Letter to Lord Viscount Howe....', Printed from Logotypes, 1787

1787

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Circular white metal medal

1789

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Model of double-hulled muscular powered paddle and sailing ship

1787

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the New Geyser

1789

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

A view of the mouth of a coal pit...

1788

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787