Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1796

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

The Patent Gymnasticon

1798

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

An Iron Foundery, Colebrook Dale

1799

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

1730; 1967

Token for Sail Canvas Manufactory, Plymouth

1796

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait print from engraving of Charles Mahon, Earl Stanhope, 1798

1798

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

2000 BCE

Portrait of William Jessop (1746-1814)

1796-1798

Bronze medal commemorating Pope Pius VI

1796

A Canal Meeting

1797

Portrait, William Walker

1798

Aquatint: A view of the French raft

1798

The Fashionable Mamma or The Convenience of Modern Dress

1796

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

Erasmus Darwin

1797

Alexr. Aubert, Esqr, F.R.S.

1798

Siege de la Colonne de Pompee

1799

Octagonal silver membership medal

1796

Silver medal to commemorate an uprising in Italy

1797

Bronze token or coin

1796

Circular silver medal

1797

Gilt bronze medal with hole through middle

1799

Bronze medal

1798