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Category
Collection
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Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1796

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

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

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

1795

A Singular Operation

1795

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Companion / John Curr of Sheffield

1795

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Ellwood of Whitehaven phosphor

circa 1795

Dundee farthing token

1797

Dundee halfpenny

1797

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Forfar halfpenny

1797

Silver prize medal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris

1796

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3