Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

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

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel 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

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Watch with faceted oval rock crystal case and protective outer case by John Ramsay

1625

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