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Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

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

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

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Table clock by Richard Baker

1675-1700

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

CAROLVS II.

1667

Compound microscope

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

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

1665-1670

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685