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Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

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

1680

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

1680

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

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

Month-going longcase clock in a marquetry case by George Stratford

1700-1725

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

1710

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Silver horizontal pocket sundial by N. Bion

1700-1725

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Compound microscope

1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720