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Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

1690-1710

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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 with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

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

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

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 M. Martinot

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

John Seller's 'Sea Gunner's Rule' 1695

1695

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

A Prospect and Section of the Light-house

1708

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931