Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1808

Weights and measures

1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Half-penny coin

1806

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

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

Half-penny coin

1806

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

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

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

Observations taken at a small water mill at Hitchin

1809 Sept 14

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Two aquatints after Rowlandson and Pugin

1808

Iron Works, Colebrook Dale

1805

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

2000-100 BCE

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