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

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

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

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Lancet case

1819-1820

Brass Sikes hydrometer by R.B. Bate

1816

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

1990-95

Spirit bubbles in mahogany case by J & J Gardner

circa 1820

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

Set of money scales in sharkskin case

1820

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

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

2000 BCE

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Silver (plated?) medal commemorating 450th anniver

1820

Medal to commemorate Vesalius

1820

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

Bronze medal

1820

Bronze medal to commemorate Pierre Abailard Peter Abelard

1817

Bronze medal commemorating Baron Georges de Cuvier

1820