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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1680

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

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

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Silver horizontal pocket sundial by N. Bion

1700-1725

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Storage jar

1714

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Compound microscope

1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s