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
1 The Treatise of the Figures. By John Stockwood, 1719. Leather 5¾” x 3½” Book James Watt's Garret Workshop 1719
Silver medal commemorating the deliverence of Hamburg from plague, Germany, 1714 Wellcome Medals 1714
Original eight day clock by Harrison, date 1715, wheel work mostly of wood, weight driven Weight driven pendulum clock Time Measurement 1715
Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC. Building Construction 2000-1001 BCE
1709-1772, active 1734-72, mathematical, philosophical & optical instrument maker, lecturer, English Adams, George 1709 - 1772
Gold memento mori finger ring, set with a transparent stone shaped like a coffin which contains the image of a skeleton, band has an enamel inscription Memento mori ring Wellcome (general) 1728
