Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Marine barometer by R.B. Bate
mid-1800s
Chronometer with case and accessories
circa 1800
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
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
Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)
1800
Hydrometer made by T. Gill
circa 1800
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Model of a machine for fulling cloth
1800
Box containing "geometrical solids"
1800
Commemorative plate
1800
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Grainger's simple pocket microscope
1800
Horizontal and analemmatic sundial
1800
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Callipers (c. 1800)
1800
copy of a gold cup.
3000-2000 BCE
Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.
circa 1800
Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)
2000 BCE
Portrait. Rev. Dr. Stephen Hales. Engraving 1800
1800
Engraving, mezzotint, The Earl of Chesterfield's State Carriage
1800
Copper matrix
1800
Body tube of nautical refracting telescope
1800
Brass cross-head and compass, 1800
1800
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
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Compound and simple microscope
1800
Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Spode"
circa 1800
Spy Glass (c.1800) by Ramsden London
1800
"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)
1800
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830
circa 1830
Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.
1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)
Red granite drill core
2686-2613 BCE
Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian
20-400
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Small squat bronze mortar
1801-1800