Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1636

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Pulley 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

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

1697

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Frame saw,18 t.p.i. late 17th century.

1650-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Napier's Bones

1690

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Gunter quadrant

1640

Compound microscope

1700

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

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

1680

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

1640

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630