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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

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

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

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

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Very large bronze mortar

1666

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

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Bell shaped mortar with protruding rim

1647

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

Clay tobacco pipe

1650-1660

Clay tobacco pipe

1625-1655

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

1990-95

Astrolabe, c.1650

1645-1655

Brass equinoctial ring dial

1660

Pocket watch with silver on case

1655-1665

European astrolabe, 1631

1631

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Portrait print from engraving of Robert Boyle, 1664

1664

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Albarello for Sandalwood Ointment

1635-1645

Marble bust of "Torricelli"

1640-1650

Small squat bronze mortar with flared foot and rim

1625-1675

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500