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Napier's Bones

1690

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

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

1710

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

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

1701-1708

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Astronomical table clock by Samuel Watson, believed to have belonged to Sir Isaac Newton

1690-1710

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

1701

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

1690-1710

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Portable sundial and perpetual calendar

1693

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE