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Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Votive plaque

1690

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Clay tobacco pipe

1690-1710

Tobacco box

1672-1702

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

1990-95

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Verge watch by Johannes van Ceulen of the Hague, 1690-1700.

1690-1700.

Pocket Watch in Silver Case by Thymen, 1690-1710

1690-1710

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Votive plaque

1698

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1676

Cross-head, 1690-1710

1690-1710

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Temple spectacles

1690-1709

Spring-driven pendulum clock by Johannes van Ceulen of The Hague, c. 1695

1670-1680

Italian albarello vase

1700

Small brass (?) mortar, flared rim and foot, flat

1675-1700

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710