Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Architect's drawing instruments

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction in boxwood, "Dr Black 1808 Scr."

1807

Reproduction in boxwood, featuring male bust

1807

Boxwood copy of Trafalgar medal

1805-1819

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Improved Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

New Improved' universal compound microscope with fitted mahogany case

1785-1795

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

1880

Terrestrial hand telescope

1675-1685

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705

Boxwood Harrow Mark Reducer slide rule by E.S.A.

Slide rule for interest calculations

1824

Four foot gauging rule

1804-1844

Timber Slide Rule

1789-1810

C. Hoare's pocket plate and bar slide rule

Boxwood sector (6-inch) by W.F Stanley & Company

1876

Refracting terrestrial telescope by Mann & Ayscough

1740-1750

Wollaston-type optometer

1825-1835

Beam compasses

1876

Textile printing block of irregular shape

1750-1830

Textile printing block

1750-1830

Irregular shaped textile printing block

1750-1830

Narrow rectangular Textile printing block

1800-1825

Drawing scale, boxwood

1790-1819

Engineer's slide rule, boxwood

1790-1819

Brass Quin's saccharometer

1801-1830

Gilt customs and excise standard no 1 (Sikes) hydrometer by J J Hicks

1870-1930

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

Atkins' saccharometer by Dring and Fage

Improved saccharometer

1825-1835

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908