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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

1802

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule

1814

eight wooden geometrical models exhibiting the forms of crystals

1813

Set of Larkin's crystal model in a wooden box

1800

Improved saccharometer

1825-1835

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Wollaston's planisphere

1812

Ready reckoner, c 1820.

circa 1820

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Nested Troy cup weights

1800-1825

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Automatic combined Guinea and Sovereign balance

1820-1840

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Guinea balance, to weigh gold guineas

1800-1810

Steelyard-type chondrometer in case

1790-1797

Steelyard type guinea balance (Merlin type)

1810

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Charles Babbage

1833

Brown stoneware drug jar

1816-1837

Brown stoneware drug jar

1816-1837

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Collection of 9 models of various valves adopted in mine pumps

1844

Silver tongue scraper, London, England, 1827

1827

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Pewter pap boat

1843

Piece of cloth from Edward Jenner's coffin, United Kingdom, 1823

1823

Scales, brass beam and pans

1800-1820

Wooden model of a Harrison's grid-iron pendulum

1829

Brass disc fitted with glass handle and small brass discharging sphere

1828

Microscope by Oberhauser

1830

logarithmic scale

1800-1805

1 Convexo convex lens

1790-1819

Plaster mould, Priestess pouring libations on altar

1790-1819

Plaster cast of dolphin

1790-1819

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Valve from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Fitting from the model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Glass strikes for imperial capacity measures

1824

Hot Goose, Cabbage & Cucumbers

1823

Print, coloured. Caricature. He Steers his Flight aloft

1810

Etching-coloured: `Opposition Telegraphs'

1798

Engraving. `View of the Telegraph erected on The Admiralty Office'. Published by S.W. Fores

1796