Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

circa 1800

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

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

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1799

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

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

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

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

1730; 1967

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Bronze medal celebrating Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccination

1800

Portrait. Rev. Dr. Stephen Hales. Engraving 1800

1800

Siege de la Colonne de Pompee

1799

Gilt bronze medal with hole through middle

1799

Bronze medal commemorating public health under the first French Republic

1800

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Galvanism in Piccadilly

1800

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

1800

Design for a Road Perch, L Spring Landau carriage

1800

Copper matrix

1800

Body tube of nautical refracting telescope

1800

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE