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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

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

1802

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1801

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

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

1883-01

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

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

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

Portrait: engraving

1801

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800

Box containing "geometrical solids"

1800

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

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

Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

1802

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Medal to commemorate Sacco

1802

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Engraving, two portrait vignettes

1801

Portrait. Rev. Dr. Stephen Hales. Engraving 1800

1800

Oval silver medal

1801

Bronze medal

1801

Medal, bronze, of the "Societe Galvanique et de Rech. Physiq."

1802

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

Jointed rope-maker's slide rule

1802