Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid, London, England, 1814

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

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

1883-01

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Silver medal

1814

Sepia aquatint. Pont Cysyllte aqueduct. I. Havell after E. Pugh

1814

Lithograph, A Mill at Colebrook Dale

1813

Print, Aquatint from George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Silver medal

1814

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Birmingham workhouse three pence token, 1813.

1813

Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Sheffield workhouse penny

1813

Token, copper, 33mm diameter. Glasgow Phoenix ironworks penny

1813

Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Flint lead works penny

1813

Token. Copper; 34mm diameter

1813

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

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

The Collier

1813

Coloured aquatint, Radcliffe Observatory

1814