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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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

1705-1737

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1818

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Phantasmagoria magic lantern c. 1820

circa 1820

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal to commemorate Pierre Abailard Peter Abelard

1817

Circular silver alloy token

1817-1820

Bronze medal commemorating Baron Georges de Cuvier

1820

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

1819

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Medal to commemorate Galileo Galilei

1818

Bronze medal

1819

Bronze medal to commemorate P. Moscati

1819

Bronze medal by F. Caunois commemorating Baron Georges Cuvier

1820

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

Aquatint of 'The London Engineer'

1819

Withering's Botanical microscope late form

1820

Colonial threepence coin of George III

1816

Sovereign coin of George III

1817

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Sovereign coin of George III

1818

Franc coin of Louis XVIII (France)

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple microscope adapted for viewing living opaque objects

1820