Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

circa 1795

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

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'

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

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

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

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

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

1990-95

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

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

Bronze medal commemorating Pope Pius VI

1796

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

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

1793

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Octagonal silver membership medal

1796

Silver medal to commemorate the execution of Louis XVI

1793

Bronze token or coin

1796