Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton Clockmakers 1702
Compound microscope made by Edmund Culpeper, 1720-30, Moorfields, London. Wooden frame and pasteboard and red leather tube with gold-coloured tooling. Complete with pyramid-shaped carry case, specimen slides and accessories. Early Culpeper microscope Microscopes 1720-1730
Silver medal commemorating the deliverence of Hamburg from plague, Germany, 1714 Wellcome Medals 1714
1 The Treatise of the Figures. By John Stockwood, 1719. Leather 5¾” x 3½” Book James Watt's Garret Workshop 1719
Original eight day clock by Harrison, date 1715, wheel work mostly of wood, weight driven Weight driven pendulum clock Time Measurement 1715
Model of 90-gun, 2nd-rate, man-of-war naval vessel, built to the 1706 Establishment Water Transport 1706-1730
Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester", of establishment of 1708. This represents a fourth-rate, 663 tons burthen, 125ft x 34.5ft., built and launched at the Chatham dockyard in 1708, which remained in service until it was broken up in February 1749. Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester" Warships c. 1708
Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC. Building Construction 2000-1001 BCE
Metal momento mori finger ring, set with 1 large square transparent stone with a skull underneath, and a small square transparent stone either side of large stone, bears inscription on band, 1725 Memento mori ring Wellcome (general) 1725
Object glass, 2nd of 5, from very early Culpeper microscope, by Edmund Culpeper, England, 1720-1730 Object glass, 2nd of 5, from very early Culpeper microscope Microscopes 1720-1730
