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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

Half-penny coin

1799

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

Engraving, mezzotint, The Earl of Chesterfield's State Carriage

1800

Print, John Smeaton. Civil Engineer. F.R.S.

1798

Copper matrix

1800

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1800

Onza de Oro or Eight Scudos coin of Carlos IV (Spain)

1800

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1798

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Spode"

circa 1800

"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)

1800

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Box containing "geometrical solids"

1800

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Commemorative plate

1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Garnerin, Experience du parachute 22 October 1797

1797

Horizontal and analemmatic sundial

1800

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

Brass automatic lancet

1798