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Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Amputation saw with ivory handle

1601-1700

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Gunter quadrant

1640

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Hooke's compound microscope, copy, 1665-1675.

1665-1675

1635-1703, natural philosopher, Isle of Wight, England, English

Hooke, Robert

1635 - 1703

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Parturition (birthing) chair

1601-1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625