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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

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

1701-1708

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

1712

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

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

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Storage jar

1714

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1701

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Tin medal

1704

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

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Wafer tongs

1715

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Albarello, earthenware, tin-glazed

1701-180

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

Brass pill divider

1712

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

1972-3