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Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Seton needle

1875-1900

Rosewood spice mill

1701-1800

Tall rosewood spice mill

1701-1800

Cautery, probably 18th

1701-1900

Corrigan's button

1846-1900

William Storer's 'artificial eye' (camera obscura)

1778-1789

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Corrigan's button

1846-1900

Monochord with adjustable sound box

Screw barrelled microscope, rosewood, gilt brass stand

1680-1690

Detached finial with gilded decoration

1800-1810

Scroll foot (Cuff type) microscope by John Cuff, London, c. 1750

1745-1755

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705

Rolling parallel rule by Elliott Bros

1870-1910

Samuel Russell's Patent bi-centrolinead No.24 by Patrick Adie

1848-1886

Monochord with notched base

Small opaque Compass microscope

1731-1770

Monochord with triangular tapering hollow base

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Medicine chest

1780-1805

Rectangular rosewood medicine chest

1831-1870

Rectangular medicine chest with hinged lid and front-opening drawer

1831-1870

Rowsell's Graphoscope Stereo Viewer.

1910

Planetary System

1800

French folding fan with a satirical scene of the comet of 1811

1811-1815

Tail docker

1890-1910

Scottish "Ell-Wand", inscribed, Burgh of Kirkwall

1668

Microscope by Marshall, c. 1700

1695-1705

Monochord with adjustable sound box

Compound microscope

1680

Small beading plane for circular work, cone face

1867

Rebating plane for circular work

1867

Pocket draw-tube spyglass telescope

1700-1750

Double monochord mounted on 'H' shaped framework

Tall rosewood drug mill

1701-1800

Rosewood(?) spice mill, 4 detachable parts, iron g

1601-1800

Tall rosewood spice mill in 4 detachable parts

1601-1800

Spice or drug mill of turned wood

1601-1700

Turned wooden drug or spice mill in 2 sections with funnel above and iron handle to operate grinding mechanism

1701-1800

Spice mill of turned wood

1701-1800

Fire-piston contained in a walking stick

Rosewood parallel ruler

1790-1819

Wooden drug mill with turned cylindrical base

1701-1800

Anatomical model of an eye, Italy, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Fillet, with turned decorative handle

1751-1900