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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

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

circa 1800

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Weights and measures

1805

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1802

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

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

Half-penny coin

1806

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1801

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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 with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

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

1801

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1990-95

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

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

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

shadow ball

1800s

Portrait: engraving

1801

Two washers

15/7/27

Cloud study of a distant shower

1803

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE