Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1815

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)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Two coloured aquatints of hobby horses

1819

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

1883-01

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

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

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

Medal to commemorate Dante

1819

Oval silver membership medal

1815

Bronze medal to commemorate Pierre Abailard Peter Abelard

1817

Bronze medal

1815

Silver medal

1816-1817

Medal commemorating Ambroise Pare for series "Galerie Metallique des Grands Hommes Francais"

1819

Bronze medal to commemorate Boerhaave

1819

Circular gold medal

1819

Circular silver medal with silk ribbon

1815

Bronze medal

1819

Gilt bronze medal

1817