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

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

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

1636

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Tall brass mortar with fairly straight sides

1631-1670