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Category
Collection
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Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

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

1701-1708

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

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

1712

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Black haematite Syrian weight, barrel shaped, from Gaza, Phoenician system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

One foot folding carpenter's rule, brass, c. 1700

1698-1703

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Coin of Clement XI

1704

Ecu of Six Livres coin of Louis XIV (France)

1711

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Half-Guinea coin of Queen Anne

1713

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

Trade card: J Wilson (manuscript). (Calv. 448)

1706

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

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

1972-3

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

1990-95