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Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Pharmacy jar for powdered quinine

1601-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Sundial by Elias Allen

1625-1635

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

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

1625

Watch with double dial

1760

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601