Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

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 amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Storage jar

1714

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pans

1701-1725

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Gold touchpiece

1702-1714

Roman stone water main

30

Newsham's Patent Manual Fire Engine

1721-1725

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Steel urethrotome

1801-1700

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Trade token

1724

Circular silver medal

1718

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Pharmacy storage jar for Blessed Thistle Water, Italy, 1702

1702

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Bronze double-ended pestle with central flange

1701-1725