Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Compass plane

1717

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Storage jar

1714

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Large bell-shaped mortar

1688

Bell shaped

1720

Large bronze mortar

1700

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

Brass pill divider

1712

Silver vinatigrette

1701-800

Silver bleeding bowl

1704

Lancet case

1718

Bow Nuremberg spectacles

1680-1720

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Clay tobacco pipe

1680-1700

Clay tobacco pipe

1680-1700

Clay tobacco pipe

1690-1710

Clay tobacco pipe

1690-1700

Clay tobacco pipe

1680-1710

Clay tobacco pipe

1685-1715

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Triangular quadrant

1683

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

John Seller's 'Sea Gunner's Rule' 1695

1695

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Bronze medal by Ferdinand St. Urbain commemorating Marcello Malpighi

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693