Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

The Collier

1813

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Portrait of Constance Garstin in Darjeeling, India

1861-08

Medal, gilt bronze

1813

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Factory Children

1814

Line Swinglers

1814

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Dr. William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer

1814

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

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

2500 BCE

Toothbrush, silver, by I

1814

Lowkers

1814

The Costume of Yorkshire, Leech finders

1814

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130