Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

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

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

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

1730; 1967

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

Pocket watch in silver case

hallmarked 1795

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Lucernal Microscope (c.1795) by W&S JONES 60 HOLBORN LONDON

1795

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

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

2000 BCE

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Octagonal silver membership medal

1796

Bronze token or coin

1796

Circular silver medal

1797

Silver prize medal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris

1796

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

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

1795

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Bronze medal commemorating Pope Pius VI

1796

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350