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Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

1727-1728

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1697

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

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

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755