Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1680

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

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

1697

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

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

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

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

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

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700