Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

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

1650-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Gunter quadrant

1640

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

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

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725