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Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

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

1705-1737

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE

Brass automatic lancet

1798

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Nipple shield

1801

Straight spectacles

1798-1799

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

1990-95

Plaque showing dental and surgical operations, Europe, 1801-1900

1300-1700; 1801-1900

Nipple shield, English, 1799.

1799

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

1795

Cylinder escapement with ruby cylinder

1795

Powder-Tester (c. 1800)

1800

Verge watch with inner and outer cases

1776-1839

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Verge by G. Yonge, 1800

circa 1800