Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

circa 1795

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

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Bronze medal to commemorate Marat, France, 1793

1793

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

White metal (alloy?) medal, commemorates the emigr

1794

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' Guinea coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1791

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1791

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Petit-Ecu of Three Livres coin of Louis XVI (France)

1791

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machineā€¦'

1794

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Garnerin, Experience du parachute 22 October 1797

1797

Manuscript instructions and receipt for Ramsden solar microscope, 1793

1793

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

The Pin and the Needle

1793

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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