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Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

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 repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

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

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

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

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

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

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Urinal

1701-1730

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

Drawing of Grand Orrery by Thomas Wright and engraving of 'The Grand Orrery' by John Rowley

1715-1728

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

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

1580-1588; 1930

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

2000-1001 BCE

Analemmatic sundial for latitude 52[o]

1732

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

1900-1933

Albarello drug jar used for Lacc resin

1701-1730