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Napier's Bones

1690

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

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

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

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Compound microscope

1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Portable sundial and perpetual calendar

1693

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE