Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Pulley 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

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

CAROLVS II.

1667

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Storage jar

1714

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

1670

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

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680