Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Spy Glass (c.1820)

1820

Bronze medal to commemorate General Blucher von Wahlstatt

1819

Bronze medal

1819

Bronze medal to commemorate P. Moscati

1819

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1883-01

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Handbill: Notice, Lecture, Eidouranian, Gravesend.

1820

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Franc coin of Louis XVIII (France)

1820

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Thermometer, with ivory scale (c.1820)

1820

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Pencil drawing with MS annotation. Design for a Town Landau

1820

Hydrometer in case with weights

1820

Copy of apparatus used by Ampere to demonstrate that a current carrying conductor

1820

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Silver medal to commemorate the 1118th anniversary (686-1804) of a European principality

1820

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500