Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Half-penny coin

1799

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

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Aquatint print of design of cast iron bridge by Thomas Telford, 1801

1801

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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

An Iron Foundery, Colebrook Dale

1799

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

2000-100 BCE

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

1800

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Hollow clay tile, from R.A.F. Stanmore Park, 1800

1800

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE

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

1800

Urethrotome, steel, poor condition

1801-1700

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Hydrometer made by T. Gill

circa 1800

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Nipple shield

1801

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

1990-95

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)