Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Pulley 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

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

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

CAROLVS II.

1667

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Compass plane

1717

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Napier's Bones

1690

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689