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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1800

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'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

Weights and measures

1805

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

circa 1800

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

1802

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

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

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

1801

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Model of a Section of the Pont-y-Cysyllte Aqueduct, 1805

1805

Horizontal and analemmatic sundial

1800

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936