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Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

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

1752

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

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

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745