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Napier's Bones

1690

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

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

1990-95

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

1665-1675

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

1697

CAROLVS II.

1667

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Islamic Astrolabe

1666-1667

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Cylindrical form of Napier's bones

circa 1700

Morland's Calculating Machine, 1666-1695

1666-1695

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Napier's bones or rods

1671-1700

John Yarwell

1683

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1972