Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

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

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

1680

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

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

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

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

1675-1685

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

Silver watch by Thomas Taylor

1658

Longcase clock by John Fromanteel, originally fitted with a cross-beat escapement

1665-1670