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Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Lantern clock by Peter Closon

1650-1660

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

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

1640

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

1640

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Hooke's compound microscope, copy, 1665-1675.

1665-1675

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

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

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

1636

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

1670

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

Lantern clock by Knifton

1640-1662

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Black and white enamel verge watch by Goullons, Paris

1650

Watch with enamel portrait believed to be of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693)

1650

Watch in a painted enamel case by Paul Roumieu

1650

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670