Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1799

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Divers Projets

1798

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Half-penny coin

1799

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Capt. Joseph Huddart, FRS

1801

Aquatint, coloured; The Aqueduct Bridge

1801

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

shadow ball

1800s

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Compass

1800

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

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

1913; circa 900 CE

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

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

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

Folding coin scale

1800

Wrought iron ring and hook used in underground canals. c.1800

circa 1800

Iron Weight

1910-130