Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

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

1697

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

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

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Blue maolica albarello

1670-1730

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Blue maiolica albarello

1670-1730

Storage jar

1714

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wax plaque in glazed wooden frame

1701-1730

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710