Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

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

1600

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

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1625

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Small drum-shaped clock from the second quarter of the 16th Century

1525-1550

Drum shaped clock from the third quarter of the 16th Century

1550-1575

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

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

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