Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Extending spectacles and case

1790-1793

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Commemorative Halfpenny Token, Isaac Newton

1793

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

Coalbrookdale Halfpenny Token

1792

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Ipswich halfpenny token, 1794

1794

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793

Bronze trade token

1792

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Bronze medal celebrating the Confederation of France under the new constitution

1790

Trade token

1791

Copper engraving

1792

Bronze trade token

1791

Penny trade token

1794

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Silver medal commemorating 100th birthday of Cornelia Bierens

1790

Tin-plated prize medal for medicine and surgery

1788-1794

Bronze revolutionary coin or token

1792

Silver prize medal from Military Academy of Medicine and Surgery with bust of Emperor Joseph II

1788-1794

Bronze money token

1791

Bronze trade token

1791

Bronze coin

1793

Silver medal commemorating the recovery of King George III from his mental illness in 1788

1789

Circular bronze trade token

1791

Circular brass(?) medal, commemorates the death of

1793-1794

Bronze trade token

1792

Bronze medal to commemorate the storming of the Tuileries Palace

1792

Silver medal to commemorate the execution of Louis XVI

1793

Bronze medal to commemorate the formation of the National Assembly

1789

Silver medal or token

1789

Silver medal

1790

Bronze medal to commemorate Louis XVI and the National Assembly

1789

Medal, silver, commemorating Edmond-Claude Bourru

1788

4 copper halfpenny coins

1793

Heath's Bladud & Baths Pump Room trade token

1794