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Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Half-penny coin

1806

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Weights and measures

1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Half-penny coin

1806

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

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

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

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

1990-95

Silver vinaigrette

1805

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Portrait: engraving

1806

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Aquatint, coloured, from 'The Costume of Great Britain' by W.H. Pyne. pub. William Miller

1805

Model of a Section of the Pont-y-Cysyllte Aqueduct, 1805

1805

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

The Costume of Great Britain: Welsh peasants

1805

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Gilt bronze medal

1805

Bronze medal commemorating the new workhouse at Genoa

1806

Two silver medals to commemorate F.J. Gall

1805

Forty Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1806

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1806

Two Scudos coin of Carlos IV (Spain)

1806

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1805

Surrey Iron Railway

1806

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Circular, bronze medal

1806

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350