Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion
1675-1679
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Camera Obscura
1701-1752
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Orrery by Thomas Wright
1735-1745
Moon globe by John Russell, England, 1797
1797
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen
1607-1653
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Telescope by Christopher Cock
1673
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
Slide rule by Robert Bissaker
1654
wheel cutting machine
1668-1672 Probable
George III's philosophical table
1761-1762
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Compound microscope
1700
Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion
1675-1700
‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin
1756-1800
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Thomas Tuttell
1695-1702
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Telescope by John Marshall
1685-1695
Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton
1650-1665
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell
1593-1610
Table clock by Nicholas Vallin
1598-1603
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Pair of seventeenth-century dividers
1600-1699
Telescope by John Yarwell.
1685-1695
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Demainbray's polemoscope
1701-1752
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Gunter quadrant
1640
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes
1648-1687
CAROLVS II.
1667
George III's pendulum
1762
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Gunter sector signed Elias Allen
1623
Brass-bound lodestone
1675-1700
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769