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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

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

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

2500 BCE

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1672

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Small bell-shaped mortar

1677

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Table clock by Richard Baker

1675-1700

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

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

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 with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

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

1675-1685

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

1686

Surveying quadrant, 1674.

1674

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

Silver vinaigrette

1701-800

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Small silver with ribbed edge

1683