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Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Weights and measures

1805

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

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

1990-95

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Iron Works, Colebrook Dale

1805

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

2000-100 BCE

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

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait print from engraving of Leonard Euler, 1804

1804

Fete du Sacre et Couronnement de leurs Majestes Imperiales

1804-1805

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

2000 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate the Italian constitution under Napoleon Bonaparte

1804

Medal commemorating Franz Joseph Gall

1805

Medal to commemorate Trotula

1804-1805

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Bronze medal to commemorate the institution of the Napoleonic Academy of Lucca

1805

White metal medal to commemorate J. Goercke

1805

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Silver medal

1804

Bronze medal

1805

Vesalius

1804

Two silver medals to commemorate F.J. Gall

1805

Reproduction of John Dalton's Atomic Formulae, 1793-1803

1793-1803; 1925

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE