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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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 movement by John Grant

1800

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Wrought iron ring and hook used in underground canals. c.1800

circa 1800

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Replica of Coalbrookdale Company Cast Iron Wagon Wheel

1800

19th Century Building Materials from Windsor Castle

1800s

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Folding coin scale

1800

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Stone Sleeper

1800

Stone Sleeper

1800

Dannemora Ferngrufva in Upland

circa 1800

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500