Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Irish Linen Industry

1791

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Coalbrookdale Halfpenny Token

1792

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

2000 BCE

Bronze trade token

1792

Trade token

1791

Copper engraving

1792

Bronze trade token

1791

Bronze revolutionary coin or token

1792

Bronze money token

1791

Bronze trade token

1791

Circular bronze trade token

1791

Bronze trade token

1792

Bronze medal to commemorate the storming of the Tuileries Palace

1792

Metal trade token struck by the revolutionary government at Paris

1792

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Coalbrookdale halfpenny token, 1792.

1792

Carmarthen halfpenny token

1791

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Wilkinson halfpenny

1791

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

1791

Aquatint - sepia toned

1792

Aquatint - sepia toned

1792

Copper coin minted by the French Revolutionary Government

1792

Middlesex halfpenny token, 1791.

1791

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1791

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1791