Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Compass plane

1717

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Blue maolica albarello

1670-1730

Blue maiolica albarello

1670-1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Culpeper microscope body and stand

1701-1730

Large bronze bell-shaped mortar

1678

Tall thin bronze mortar

1675

Large bell-shaped mortar

1688

Small bell-shaped bronze mortar

1671-1700

Squat bronze mortar

1730

Small bell-shaped mortar

1677

Bell shaped

1720

Large bronze mortar

1700