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Category
Collection
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Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Storage jar

1714

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Votive plaque

1690

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Clay tobacco pipe

1690-1710

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

1990-95

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Verge watch by Johannes van Ceulen of the Hague, 1690-1700.

1690-1700.

Pocket Watch in Silver Case by Thymen, 1690-1710

1690-1710

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Silver touchpiece

1701-1715

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Votive plaque

1698

Cross-head, 1690-1710

1690-1710

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Temple spectacles

1690-1709

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

Italian albarello vase

1700

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

Small Austrian balance

1700-1710

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Large bronze mortar

1700

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700