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Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

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

1702

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

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 repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

1701-1708

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

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

1712

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Storage jar

1714

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Aquatic microscope by J. Cuff with extra stand No. 34 and fishskin case

1745

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979