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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Compound microscope

1700

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

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

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

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

1712

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1695

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Gold touchpiece

1702-1714

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Haematite weight, Syrian

1700-1600 BCE

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Haematite weight, Syrian

1700-1600 BCE

Haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE