Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Statue of St Mary Magdalene

1601-1750

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Amputation saw with ivory handle

1601-1700

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Gunter quadrant

1640

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

1990-95

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

1665-1675

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755