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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Richard Arkwright

1790

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

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

1730; 1967

Clarke's improved hydrometer

1792

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

1972-3

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

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Tobacco box

1792

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

1990-95

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Pocket watch in silver case

hallmarked 1795

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Silver vinaigrette

1790

Engraving, William Herschel's twenty-foot reflecting telescope

1794

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machineā€¦'

1794

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Lucernal Microscope (c.1795) by W&S JONES 60 HOLBORN LONDON

1795

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

Box and weights for money changer's scales

1790

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Italian albarello vase

1791

The Pin and the Needle

1793

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

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

2000 BCE

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793

Bronze trade token

1792

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Trade token

1791

Bronze trade token

1791

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

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Octagonal silver membership medal

1796