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Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

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

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

"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

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

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

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