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Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gunter quadrant

1640

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Compass plane

1717

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

1650-1700

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

Storage jar

1714

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Very large bronze mortar

1666