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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

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

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

1697

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

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

1680

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

1680

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

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