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Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

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

1815

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Mr. Sadler

1815

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

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

2000 BCE

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Medal, gilt, bronze

1817

Bronze medal

1818

Bronze prize medal of the Paris Medical School

1817

Bronze medal

1818

Oval silver membership medal

1815

Bronze medal to commemorate Pierre Abailard Peter Abelard

1817

Bronze medal

1815

Silver medal

1816-1817

Circular silver medal with silk ribbon

1815

Gilt bronze medal

1817

Bronze medal

1817

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages. [town coach] / Published by R. Ackermann

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages

1816

One of nine prints of early 19th century carriages. [landau carriage] / Published by R. Ackermann

1816

Silver medal struck by the Parisian Butchers to commemorate King Louis XVIII by Andrieu

1816