Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret
1812
Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817
1810-1817
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold
1821
Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.
1812
Gold watch by Robert Roskell
1814
Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London
1816
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps
1813
Five wooden molecular model balls
circa 1810
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Seal, Stockton & Darlington Railway
1821
Phrenological head
1821
Stained plaster phrenological bust
1821
Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery
1822
Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy
1820
Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827
1823
Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor
1815
Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks
1812
Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton
1820
Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid
1809
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Richard Trevithick
1816
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.
1814
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware oil jar
2000-1350
Earthenware dish
2000-1350
Alabaster kohl pot
2000-1350
Calf's Head Weight
1370-1350 BCE; 1931
Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse
30-200
Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531
1931; 250 BCE
Box of scales and weights
1810
Set of money scales in sharkskin case
1820