Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Drum shaped clock from the third quarter of the 16th Century

1550-1575

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

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

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

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

1697

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

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

1625

Silver watch by James Vautrollier

1630

Watch in a rock crystal case by David Ramsay

1630

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

1630

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Silver star-shaped verge watch by David Ramsay

1625

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600