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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

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

Chemical Lectures

circa 1810

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Silhouette of child

circa 1810

Silhouette of man

circa 1810

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale

1816

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

Brass Sikes hydrometer by R.B. Bate

1816

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

1990-95

Silver vinaigrette

1818

S.Smith's escapement

1812

Patent Pocket Watch by Samuel Smith, 1810-1815

1810-1815

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Toothbrush, silver, by I

1814

Early Chemical Match Box (c.1810) by S. JONES' PATENT LIGHTHOUSE NO 201 STRAND

1810

Implements Animated

1811

Water-colour. Mr. Sadler's balloon ascent at Hackney

1811

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Mr. Sadler

1815

Simple microscope in turned rosewood case (c.1810)

1810

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Musical cryptographic device

1812

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule

1814

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Spherical model part

1812-1813