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Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Compound microscope

1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

1690-1710

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1680

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

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

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

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

1712