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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1701-1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Tin glazed earthenware albarello made for the Franciscans

1601-1750

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

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

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630