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Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1794

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

circa 1795

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

The Patent Gymnasticon

1798

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

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

1795

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

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

1850-1899

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Thomas Earnshaw

1798

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

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

3000-2500 BCE

Token for Sail Canvas Manufactory, Plymouth

1796

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

Commemorative Halfpenny Token, Isaac Newton

1793

Portrait print from engraving of Charles Mahon, Earl Stanhope, 1798

1798

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

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

2000 BCE

Ipswich halfpenny token, 1794

1794

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793