Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

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

1697

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Votive plaque

1690

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Brass equinoctial ring dial

1660

Pocket watch with silver on case

1655-1665

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1676

Portrait print from engraving of Robert Boyle, 1664

1664

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Spring-driven pendulum clock by Johannes van Ceulen of The Hague, c. 1695

1670-1680

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Large bronze bell-shaped mortar

1678

Small iron bell-shaped mortar

1668

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1655

Tall thin bronze mortar

1675