Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

Gunter quadrant

1640

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

CAROLVS II.

1667

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

1650-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Napier's Bones

1690

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

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

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Leather covered perfume case, containing 4 glass bottles, a metal funnel and measure

1671-1700