Napier's Bones
1690
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Slide rule by Robert Bissaker
1654
Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases
1862
Architect's drawing instruments
Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875
1865-1875
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
Sundial making tool
1690-1710
Napier's bones or rods
1671-1700
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Weaving power loom shuttle
1858-1862
Botanical model
1875-1900
Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862
1858-1862
Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe, Germany, c. 1740
1740
Model of Vauloue's piledriver
1737-1752
Excise Officer's slide rule, 1759-1769.
1759-1769
Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat
1850-1910
Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862
1858-1862
Turned massage ball encased in turned socket
1801-1900
Botanical model
1875-1900
Electrotherapy equipment
1780-1810
Surveyor's sector, early 17th century
early 17th century
Eccentric cutting frame for ornamental lathe
Small mercury thermometer in hinged wooden case
1700-1799
Botanical model
1875-1900
Cook Slide Rule
1825-1834
Weaving power loom shuttle
1858-1862
Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862
1858-1862
Metal factors ruler incorporating sliding caliper marked Thomas Bradburn and Sons
Boxwood fathom marker
1876
Slide rule for interest calculations
1824
Wollaston-type optometer
1825-1835
Dines-type anemometer display, 1892-1900
1892-1900
Cavalry sketching board, 1910
1910
Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862
1862
Botanical model
1875-1900
Allan's electromagnetic generator.
1852
Sandhurst protractor
Botanical model
1875-1900
Small prospect glass (or opera or spyglass)
1745-1755
Hannyngton's slide rule
Hotbed soil thermometer, 1870-1875
1870-1875
Selection of spectacle-maker's tools
1801-1820
Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods
1690-1710
eights and mercury thermometer from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), and original correspondence for Constantinople and Iona
1800-1818
Ronchetti linear slide rule
circa 1847
Gilt customs and excise standard no 1 (Sikes) hydrometer by J J Hicks
1870-1930
Winding handle for spindle moulder
1791-3
One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning
1890-1913