Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Silver horizontal pocket sundial by N. Bion

1700-1725

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

CAROLVS II.

1667

Compound microscope

1700

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Longcase clock by John Fromanteel, originally fitted with a cross-beat escapement

1665-1670

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

Gold half-quarter repeating watch by Simon Decharmes

1700-1725

Gold pair cased repeater watch by William Webster

1700-1725

Pair cased watch by Thomas Tompion

1670-1680

Watch movement with Stogten repeating work by Langley Bradley

1700-1725

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Watch movement with crystal balance-cock by Thomas Cartwright

1700-1725

Gold watch with quarter repeating by Brounker Watts

1700-1725

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

1671

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

Silver clock-watch by Henricus Mott

1660

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700