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Pharmacy jar for powdered quinine

1601-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Sundial by Elias Allen

1625-1635

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Watch with faceted oval rock crystal case and protective outer case by John Ramsay

1625

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Canopic jar featuring portrait of Imseti

1400-700 BCE

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Silver watch by James Vautrollier

1630

Watch in a rock crystal case by David Ramsay

1630

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Silver form watch, in the shape of a cockle shell by Richard Masterson, c.1630

1630

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650