Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Silver watch by James Vautrollier

1630

Watch in a rock crystal case by David Ramsay

1630

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Silver form watch, in the shape of a cockle shell by Richard Masterson, c.1630

1630

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Silver star-shaped verge watch by David Ramsay

1625

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640