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Material
Date

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Napier's Bones

1690

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Scold's Bridle Mask which partially covers face

1550-1800

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

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

1636

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11