Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

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

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

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

1636

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

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

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650