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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

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

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

2500 BCE

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Oval shape serving bottle

1700

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

Trade card: Mr. Dillon

1722

Trade card: B. Scott & C. Price

1718

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Small Austrian balance

1700-1710

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Cased set of jeweller's scales, signed "John Snart"

1700-1710

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

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

1710

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

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

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710