Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1808

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1806

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

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

1705-1737

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

1990-95

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)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1883-01

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Surrey Iron Railway

1806

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

A section of Bradley Mine, near Bilston

1808

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

1807

Trade token

1807

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

Bronze prize medal of the Imperial Academy

1808

Bronze medal to commemorate the founding of a hospital

1806

Bronze medal commemorating Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1807

Medal, bronze, to commemorate Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1808

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze token

1807

Circular, bronze medal

1806

Bronze medal to commemorate G.B. Morgagni (1682-17

1808

Silver medal

1807

Joseph Wright

1807

Octagonal reproduction male profile

1808

Reproduction in alabaster, marked "M De Luc"

1806