Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Weights and measures

1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Half-penny coin

1806

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1705-1737

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Half-penny coin

1806

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Two aquatints after Rowlandson and Pugin

1808

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Regulating Throttle Cocks

1804

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Iron Works, Colebrook Dale

1805

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

1805-1806

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

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Lignum Vitae saw

1804-1807

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Framed photograph of Robert Fulton's original design for steamboat

1803-1950

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Trade token

1807

Medal, bronze, to commemorate Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1808

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE