Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

May - Study No 167

1870-10

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

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

2 lancets

1827

4 lancets

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented 1850

1827

Uterine probe

1901-950

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Lithographic stone showing W.H.Wollaston, produced via camera lucida

1827

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Patent drawing of Gurney's steam coach

1827

Foot rule (folding to 3") with sliding brass calliper

circa 1827

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

support for Colby's Compensation Bar

1827

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Circular bronze plaque

1827

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350