Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Weights and measures
1805
Half-penny coin
1806
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Oval snuff box, England, 1807
1807
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Half-penny coin
1806
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer
1805
Boring machine, Yard No. 642
1804-1807
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.
2500 BCE
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Stone Sleeper, Croyden & Merstham Iron Railway
1805
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.
1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)
Aquatint, coloured, from 'The Costume of Great Britain' by W.H. Pyne. pub. William Miller
1805
Aquatint, coloured, from 'The Costume of Great Britain' by W.H. Pyne. pub. William Miller
1805
Aquatint, coloured, from 'The Costume of Great Britain' by W.H. Pyne. pub. William Miller
1805
Alabaster mortar
2000-1350
Plaster replica of IBEX weight
1370-1350 BCE; 1931
Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London
1807
Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1805
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
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving
1773 (original); 1980s
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
Trevithick locomotive drawings and frames
circa 1804
Stone Sleeper, Croyden & Merstham Iron Railway
1805
Stone Sleeper, Croyden & Merstham Iron Railway
1805
Roman stone water main
30
Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914
Address to William Smith on his retirement
1894-05
Silver vinaigrette
1805
silver vinaigrette
1804
'Your Carry', 1867
1867-04
W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress
1864-05
Daisy
1864-04
Sir John Herschel
1867-04
The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865
1865-05
Lithograph 'Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits showing the Floating of the Second Tube, 1849'
1850-07
table of rates and charges
1857/07
Gilt bronze medal
1805
Silver medal by Abraham Abramson commemorating lectures in Berlin of Dr. Joseph Gall
1805