Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

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

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

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 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

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

1680

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

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

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

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

CAROLVS II.

1667

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Gunter quadrant

1640

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

Black and white enamel verge watch by Goullons, Paris

1650

Silver watch by Thomas Taylor

1658