Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1680

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

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

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Table clock by Richard Baker

1675-1700

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

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

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Watch, verge movement

1675

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680