Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Compound microscope

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Lantern clock by Peter Closon

1650-1660

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

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

1640

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

1640

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

1680

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

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

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

1665-1675

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

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

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640