Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

CAROLVS II.

1667

Compound microscope

1700

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1665-1675

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

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

1671-1700

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Set of thirty Napier's brass rods in tin case

1670-1699

Anatomical model of the eye with a descriptive booklet in a leather case, Italian, 1674-1679

1674-1679

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Gideon Harvey

1672