Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1636

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

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

1650-1700

CAROLVS II.

1667

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

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

1640

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

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

1640

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Earthenware dispensing pot, tin-glazed, 1640-1690

1640-1690

Bell shaped mortar with protruding rim

1647

Votive plaque

1690