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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1650-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

CAROLVS II.

1667

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

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Bronze medal commemorating Guido Poterius doctor to the Kings of France and Poland

1665

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Copper plaque illustrating unnamed man

1666

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Urban Hiarne, playwr

1682

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700

Reading lens in wooden frame and handle

1650

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Aeolipile (c. 1680-1700)

1680-1700

Guinea coin of Charles II

1684

Schilling coin of Christian V (of Denmark and Norway)

1681

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691