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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Compound microscope

1700

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

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

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

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

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

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

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

1707

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

2000-1001 BCE

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

1880-120

Silver bleeding bowl

1704