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Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

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 with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Compound microscope

1700

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Circular silver medal with suspension loop

1707

White metal medal

1703

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Bronze medal

1704

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Coin of Clement XI

1704

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of William and Mary

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Temple spectacles

1690-1709

Trade card: J Wilson (manuscript). (Calv. 448)

1706

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500