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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

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

1990-95

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

1705-1737

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Divers Projets

1798

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

circa 1795

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

circa 1800

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Trevithick locomotive drawings and frames

circa 1804

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

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

1795

shadow ball

1800s

Framed photograph of Robert Fulton's original design for steamboat

1803-1950

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Drawing produced by John Llewellin of a Tram Engine designed by Richard Trevithick

1803-12

Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1972

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

The Patent Gymnasticon

1798

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

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

1801

Portrait of an East Indiaman sailing from Madras by Robert Dodd

1797

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802