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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

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

1665-1670

Pair cased watch by Thomas Tompion

1670-1680

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

1671

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Table clock in ebony case by Samuel Knibb

1665-1666

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Watch, verge movement

1675

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Tenmon Bun’ya no zu (map showing divisions of the heavens and regions they govern)

1677

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Booklet describing Verle's anatomical eye, Italy, 1679

1679

Anatomical model of the eye with a descriptive booklet in a leather case, Italian, 1674-1679

1674-1679

The description and use of two arithmetick instruments : together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick : as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables ...

1673

German wooden clock, with foliot type escapement

1669

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Carpenter's bevel, dated 1671

1671

Bronze medal commemorating the Master Surgeons of Ivry and Paris

1674