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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

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

"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

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

1697

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Frame saw,18 t.p.i. late 17th century.

1650-1700

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

CAROLVS II.

1667

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Gunter quadrant

1640

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Earthenware dispensing pot

1620-1690

Earthenware dispensing pot

1650-1700

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876