Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1788

Dr. Witherings botanical microscope

1801

Bracelet watch by Broillal

1795-1805

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

Watch incorporated into a ring

1785-1795

Orrery clock with a glass celestial globe

1795-1805

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Richard Arkwright

1790

Half-penny coin

1806

Mrs. Sage

1785

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

1790

Trevithick locomotive drawings and frames

circa 1804

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Aquatint, coloured; The Aqueduct Bridge

1801

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

Francois Peron, Naturaliste et Redacteur du

1810

Portrait print from engraving of Charles Mahon, Earl Stanhope, 1798

1798