Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

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

circa 1795

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Richard Arkwright

1790

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

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

1730; 1967

Clarke's improved hydrometer

1792

Hollow clay tile, from R.A.F. Stanmore Park, 1800

1800

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

Brass automatic lancet

1798

Tobacco box

1792

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800

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

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Box containing "geometrical solids"

1800

Engraving, William Herschel's twenty-foot reflecting telescope

1794

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'

1794

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Commemorative plate

1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Grainger's simple pocket microscope

1800

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

1795