Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

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

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

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

1990-95

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)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

shadow ball

1800s

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

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

1800

Copper matrix

1800

Body tube of nautical refracting telescope

1800

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE