Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Compound microscope

1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

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 M. Martinot

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Albarello vase

1716

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Italian albarello vase

1700

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Tin glazed earthenware albarello bearing a monasti

1701-800

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

Small Austrian balance

1700-1710

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931