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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

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

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

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

1640

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Earthenware dispensing pot, tin-glazed, 1640-1690

1640-1690

Bell shaped mortar with protruding rim

1647

Votive plaque

1690

Clay tobacco pipe

1640-1680

Clay tobacco pipe

1650-1685

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

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

2500 BCE

Tin glazed earthenware syrup jar

1638

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Clay tobacco pipe

1630-1660

Clay tobacco pip

1630-1660