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

Napier's Bones

1690

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

Architect's drawing instruments

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

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

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

Atkins' saccharometer by Dring and Fage

Improved saccharometer

1825-1835

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Improved hydrometer with four weights

1815-1825

Textile printing block

1795-1805

Textile printing block

1795-1805

Rectangular shaped textile printing block

1750-1830

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Belt driven universal cutting frame

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Corn balance

1830-1850

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Boxwood Slide Rule; made by Dring and Fage

Cook Slide Rule

1825-1834

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

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

Caliper stringing gauge

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