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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

CAROLVS II.

1667

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Votive plaque

1690

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

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Clay tobacco pipe

1660-1700

Clay tobacco pipe

1660-1700

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

1990-95

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Verge watch by Johannes van Ceulen of the Hague, 1690-1700.

1690-1700.

Brass equinoctial ring dial

1660

Pocket watch with silver on case

1655-1665

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Votive plaque

1698