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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

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

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pans

1701-1725

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Model of Newsham's pump piston

1721

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Mezzotint print of oil painting, portrait of Isaac Newton, 1712

1712

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE