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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Compound microscope

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

1690-1710

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1680

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

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

1665-1675

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

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

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

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

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

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