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Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

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

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

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

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Watch, verge movement

1675

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Islamic Astrolabe

1666-1667

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Booklet describing Verle's anatomical eye, Italy, 1679

1679

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Flint weight, Syrian Khoirine system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Copper medal, French

1668

Gideon Harvey

1672

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE