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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

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

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

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

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

CAROLVS II.

1667

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver watch by Thomas Taylor

1658

Longcase clock by John Fromanteel, originally fitted with a cross-beat escapement

1665-1670

Pair cased watch by Thomas Tompion

1670-1680

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

1671

Silver clock-watch by Henricus Mott

1660

Watch, verge movement

1675

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Table clock in ebony case by Samuel Knibb

1665-1666

Egg-shaped watch by James Nellson

1660

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE