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

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Compound microscope

1700

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Gunter quadrant

1640

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

horological gravers

1850-1900

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

horological rubber

1850-1900

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

horological file

1850-1900

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761