Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

CAROLVS II.

1667

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Gunter quadrant

1640

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Oval crystal-cased watch with miniature and locket by A Senebier

1630

Black and white enamel verge watch by Goullons, Paris

1650

Silver watch by Thomas Taylor

1658

Longcase clock by John Fromanteel, originally fitted with a cross-beat escapement

1665-1670

Watch with enamel portrait believed to be of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693)

1650

Watch in a painted enamel case by Paul Roumieu

1650

Oval silver-gilt verge watch by Auguier

1625

Pair cased watch by Thomas Tompion

1670-1680

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

1671

Silver watch with sytlised pomegranate case by Edward East

1650

Silver clock-watch by Henricus Mott

1660

Watch, verge movement

1675

Gilt-metal and engraved silver verge watch by James Vautrollier

1622-1628

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Table clock in ebony case by Samuel Knibb

1665-1666

Lantern clock by Peter Closon

1650-1660

Oval shaped watch by Sampson Shelton

1640

Pair-cased watch with astronomical indications by Henry Childe

1650

Sundial by Elias Allen

1625-1635

Travelling 'coach' watch by Edward East

1640-1660

Egg-shaped watch by James Nellson

1660

Oval shaped watch by Richard Masterson

1630

Table clock by Henry Archer

1625

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Hooke's compound microscope, copy, 1665-1675.

1665-1675

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Albarello drug jar, Sicily, 1601-1670

1601-1670

Polychrome tin-glazed earthenware drug jar, Sicili

1601-1622