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Category
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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

circa 1800

Divers Projets

1798

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

1802

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Compass

1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

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

1800

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

1705-1737

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

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

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

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

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

An Iron Foundery, Colebrook Dale

1799

Thomas Earnshaw

1798

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

2000-100 BCE

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

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

1730; 1967

Framed photograph of Robert Fulton's original design for steamboat

1803-1950

Model of stern of vessel fitted with screw propell

1800-1802

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02