Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Compound microscope

1700

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

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Bronze medal commemorating Guido Poterius doctor to the Kings of France and Poland

1665

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Copper plaque illustrating unnamed man

1666

Bronze medal

1704

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Urban Hiarne, playwr

1682

Copper medal, French

1668

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

1701

Compasses (carpenters (?), c. 1700), iron, 4" long

1690-1710

Aeolipile (c. 1680-1700)

1680-1700