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

circa 1800

Divers Projets

1798

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

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

1801

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

Jointed rope-maker's slide rule

1802

Half-Guinea coin of George III

1803

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

Letterpress broadsheet : Monsieur Garnerin's Wonderful Descent by a Parachute

1802

Commemorative plate

1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Medal to commemorate Sacco

1802

Wrestler's belt presented in Cumberland

1803

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

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800