Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

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

1697

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

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

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

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

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

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Watch, verge movement

1675

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Table clock in ebony case by Joseph Knibb

1675-1685

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Set of thirty Napier's brass rods in tin case

1670-1699

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

2000-100 BCE

Roman stone water main

30

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE