'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret
1812
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps
1813
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
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
Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.
1812
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814
1814
Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'
1815
Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes
1813
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor
1815
Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks
1812
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Sheffield workhouse penny
1813
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Scarificator with 13 lancets, French, early 19th Century
1813
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower
1979-80
Colonial threepence coin of George III
1816
Quarter-franc coin of Napoleon I (Italian)
1812
Twenty Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)
1812
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Half-Franc coin of Napoleon I (France)
1813
Franc coin of Napoleon I (France)
1813
Roman Coin of Tiberius
30 CE
Red granite drill core
2686-2613 BCE
Synoptic scale of "Chemical Equivalents"
1814
Dry voltaic pile, 13 inches long
1815
Dry voltaic pile, 11.5 inches long
1815
China Making. Print (105mm x 187mm)
1812
Print (aquatint) "Bromham Bridge Bedfordshire" Drawn
1812-1816
Coloured aquatint, Radcliffe Observatory
1814