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Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1815

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)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

Standard Peck Measure

1819

Standard Bushel Measure

1819

Standard Gallon Measure

1819

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

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

1883-01

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

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

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

36-drawer wooden cabinet

1815-1818

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Model, of Sir Edward Belcher's anchor

1815

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Marc Isambard Brunel

1815

Marc Isambard Brunel

1815

Mezzotint portrait. Rev. William Farish

1815

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

2000 BCE

Medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Johnson, the First Rider on the Pedestrian Hobby Horse

1819

Johnson's Pedestrian Hobby Horse Riding School

1819

Engraving by J.H. Robinson after Hayton of George Parker Bidder (1806-78) of Devonshire Act 13'. Published by Colnaghi

1819