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Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Large bell shaped mortar

1684

Brass pill divider

1712

Bronze double-ended pestle with central flange

1701-1725

Silver vinaigrette

1701-1730

Silver vinaigrette

1701-1730

Silver vinatigrette

1701-800

Ivory and wood back scratcher

1701-1730

Lancet case

1718

Bow Nuremberg spectacles

1680-1720

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Lenticular, possibly early 18th century

1701-1730

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Ivory Hydrometer (c. 1700-30)

1700-1730

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725