Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Compound microscope

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Lantern clock by Peter Closon

1650-1660

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

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

1680

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

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

1665-1675

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

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

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

1670

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Table clock by Richard Baker

1675-1700

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE