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Napier's Bones

1690

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1700-1725

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

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

1752

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

1680

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1701-1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757