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Demonstrating the Earth's rotation using Foucault's pendulum in a church, 1881
 
Cyrus McCormick's reaper and binder, 1877
 
Matchlock, British, c1700
 
Military multicycle by Singer & Co, 1887
 
A Dandy-Horse or Draisienne of the type fashionable c1820
 
Baron von Drais's bicycle (Draisienne). Exhibited Paris 1818. Artist: Baron von Drais
 
IK Brunel's steam ship Great Eastern showing housing for paddle wheel, and sails, 1857
 
Hand of Constantine, sculpture
 
Babylonian clay tablet with text, 7th century BC
 
Roman mosaic of a lion
 
Skull covered in turquoise mosaic, Mixtec, southern Mexico, 1400-1521
 
Mithras, ancient Persian god of light and ruler of the Universe, slaying the bull, 100-150
 
Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf
 
Ur-Nanshe, king of Lagash, Sumeria, c2500 BC
 
Bust of Seleucus I Nicator, Macedonian general, c4th-3rd century BC
 
Bust of Marcus Annaeus Seneca, the Elder (c55 BC-40 AD), Roman Rhetorician, c1st century
 
Atlas holding the universe on his shoulders
 
Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, c9th century BC
 
Gold pendant representing Mitlantecuhtli, Aztec god of the dead, 15th century
 
Cast gold Pre-Columbian figure pendant, Muisca, Colombia, 1000-1541
 
Gold Pre-Columbian seated figure, Quimbaya, Colombia, pre 14th-15th century
 
Mycenean dagger with lion decoration, c1450-c1100 BC
 
Strings of Cowrie shells
 
Marble portrait bust of Perikles, Athenian statesman (c490-429 BC), Roman, 2nd century BC
 
Administrative tablet of clay, Mesopotamian/Sumerian, 3100-2900 BC
 
Funerary tomb model of a bakery, Ancient Egyptian
 
Artefacts (Sphinx figures) from Turkey, 1800 BC
 
Gold model chariot from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC
 
Statue of the Buddha, from Garvara, India, 2nd century
 
Christiaan Huyghens (1629-1695), Dutch physicist. Artist: F Henrionnet
 
UJJ Leverrier, French astronomer who calculated the position of planet Neptune in 1846 (1884)
 
Sphinx from Sparta, Ancient Greece
 
Roman carving of the Ancient British goddess Sul at Bath, England
 
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
 
Wilhelm Bauer (1822-1875), German inventor and pioneer builder of submarines
 
Wilhelm Bauer (1822-1875), German inventor and pioneer builder of submarines
 
Ship of Odysseus (Ulysses), King of Ithaca
 
Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, presenting an offering to the god Horus
 
Ishtar Gate, Neo-Babylonian, c575 BC
 
Diana/Artemis, goddess of hunting
 
Athena of Varvakion
 
Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom
 
Prehistoric Anatolian cultural relic from Catal Huyuk, 5750 BC
 
Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853), French astronomer, physicist and politician
 
Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853), French astronomer, physicist and politician
 
Antinous (d122), Bithynian youth, favourite and companion of the Roman emperor Hadrian
 
(Salomon) August Andree (1854-1897), Swedish engineer and balloonist, 1897
 
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836), French mathematician and physicist
 
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut, unsuccessful attempt at the Deutsch Prize
 
Clement Ader's flying bird Eole the first piloted plane to take off under its own steam, 1890
 
Autogiro, designed by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva, 1928. Creator: Unknown
 
Ceremonial basket, North American Indian
 
Navajo blanket, North American Indian, 19th century
 
Printed circuit board
 
Cray-2 supercomputer
 
Title page of Luther's translation of the Old Testament, 1534
 
Fire engine, from Georg Andreas Bockler's Theatrum Machinarum Novum, 1673. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
 
Fire engine, from Isaac de Caus Nouvelle Invention de Lever l'Eau Plus Hault, 1664. Artist: Isaac de Caus
 
Undershot water wheel powering a fulling mill, Copperplate Engraving, 1673. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
 
Archimedean Screws for raising water from one level to another, 1805