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Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1697

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Napier's Bones

1690

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Storage jar

1714

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

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

1700-1725

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Urban Hiarne, playwr

1682

Trade card: Fisher Combes

1730-1736

John Bennet

1740

medal, copper, commemorating M.Ph.Hecquet as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

1713

Medal, silver, diamond shaped

1712

Watch movement with experimental escapement

1736-1740

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Universal Dial, signed "N. Bion, Paris"

1680-1733

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720