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Wooden Acupuncture Model

Asian Medicine

1681

Napier's Bones

Mathematics

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Barometer by Daniel Quare

Meteorology

1695-1705

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Harrison's eight-day wooden clock movement, 1715.

Time Measurement

1715

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Verge watch by Peter Debaufre with later modification by Alexander Cumming, London

Clockmakers

1700

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Silver and tortoiseshell watch pair-cased watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

Clockmakers

1690-1695

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

Telescope by John Marshall

Optics

1685-1695

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

Clockmakers

1701-1708

Astronomical spring clock by Samuel Watson, believed to have belonged to Sir Isaac Newton

Clockmakers

1690-1710

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

Clockmakers

1700-1710

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1690-1710

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

Clockmakers

1690

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

Clockmakers

1680

Spring clock with pull quarter-repeat by Thomas Tompion

Clockmakers

1700

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Gold and leather pair-cased quarter-repeater cylinder watch by George Graham

Clockmakers

1745

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

Clockmakers

1675-1685

Handheld reading lens and case

Optics

1680-1700

Gold pair-cased verge repeater watch by William Webster

Clockmakers

1700-1725

Gold pair-cased half-quarter repeating watch by Simon Decharmes

Clockmakers

1700-1725

Cupellation furnace

Metallurgy

1696-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

Navigation

1675-1700

Silver and leather pair-cased verge watch by Charles Gretton

Clockmakers

1690

Pair-cased verge watch by Anna Adamson

Clockmakers

1685

Silver verge escapement watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

Clockmakers

1680-1690

Telescope by John Yarwell.

Optics

1685-1695

Spring clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

Clockmakers

1675

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

Firefighting

1680

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

Clockmakers

1712

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

Clockmakers

1692

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739