Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1697

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Storage jar

1714

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130