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Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

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

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Posset pot with Chinese decoration

1701-1750

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Storage jar

1714

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Napier's Bones

1690

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691