Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Half-penny coin

1806

Weights and measures

1805

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

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

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Half-penny coin

1806

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

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

1705-1737

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1805-1806

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Model of Henry Maudslay's table engine, 1807

1807

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

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

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Iron Works, Colebrook Dale

1805

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lignum Vitae saw

1804-1807

Surrey Iron Railway

1806

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

Copper(?) Freemason medal, French(?) 1807

1807

Gilt metal

1805

Bronze medal by H. Vassallo

1806

Bronze medal commemorating the new workhouse at Genoa

1806

Small bronze medal by Galle commemorating Xavier Bichat founder of Societe Medicale d' aemulation de Paris

1807