Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

1730; 1967

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Circular brass(?) medal, commemorates the death of

1793-1794

Silver medal to commemorate the execution of Louis XVI

1793

Silver medal commemorating the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Germany, 1793

1793

Silver medal to commemorate Philippe Joseph

1793

Bronze medal

1794

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze medal

1794

Bronze medal to commemorate Marat, France, 1793

1793

White metal (alloy?) medal, commemorates the emigr

1794

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Bath halfpenny

1794

Middlesex token

1794

Middlesex token, 1794

1794

Halfpenny token

1793

King Bladud, Bath Token

1794

Norwich halfpenny for haberdasher, 1793

1793

Leek halfpenny token for silk, 1793

1793

London halfpenny token

1794

Coalbrookdale halfpenny token

1793

Coalbrookdale halfpenny token

1793

King Bladud, Bath Token

1794

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 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