Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Napier's Bones
1690
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Wooden Acupuncture Model
1681
Camera Obscura
1701-1752
Longcase clock by James and John Harrison
1728
Orrery by Thomas Wright
1735-1745
Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine
1717-1725
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Month-going longcase clock by John May
1700-1710
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
Compound microscope
1701-1723
Astronomical table clock by Samuel Watson, believed to have belonged to Sir Isaac Newton
1690-1710
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison
1726-1728
Compound microscope
1700
Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.
1680
George III's philosophical table
1761-1762
Great spinning wheel
c.1750
Majolica pharmacy jar
1730-1750
Thomas Tuttell
1695-1702
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Turret clock movement by William Smith
1750
Telescope by John Marshall
1685-1695
Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare
1700-1710
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Cutter, Alert
1755
Telescope by John Yarwell.
1685-1695
Demainbray's polemoscope
1701-1752
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Eight-day longcase clock by Justin Vulliamy
1745-1755
Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler
1715-1725
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English
1720-1770
George III's pendulum
1762
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck
1715-1725
Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson
1685
Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724
1724
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.
1680-1690
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke
1695-1696
Demainbray's speaking trumpet
1700-1752