Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Silver touchpiece

1701-1715

Silver touchpiece probably issued by James III, the 'Old Pretender'

1715-1716

Bedpan

1701-180

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Slide-rule, 12-inch, boxwood

1713

Leather case for Slide-rule

1713

Watch Mechanism by Tompion, 1690

1690

Repeater in pierced case

1692-1707

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720

Brass equinoctial ring dial

1660

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Half-quater repeater with horizontal escapement

1750

Verge repeater

1720

Folding rule

1680-1699

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of naked

1701-1730

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of naked

1701-1730

Earthenware dispensing pot

1680-1750

Earthenware dispensing pot

1680-1750

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1672

Earthenware dispensing pot

1720-1750

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and brass pans

1701-1725

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Culpeper microscope with boxfoot made by George Adams in 1738

1738

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Octagonal silver sundial in case

1701-1750

Screwbarrel microscope, England, 1700-1730

1700-1730

Set of thirty Napier's brass rods in tin case

1670-1699

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Gold touchpiece

1702-1714

Working model of John Wyatt's original Cart-Weighing machine

1741

Booklet describing Verle's anatomical eye, Italy, 1679

1679

Anatomical model of the eye with a descriptive booklet in a leather case, Italian, 1674-1679

1674-1679

The description and use of two arithmetick instruments : together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick : as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables ...

1673

Model of 90-gun, 2nd-rate, man-of-war naval vessel, built to the 1706 Establishment

1706-1730

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

German wooden clock, with foliot type escapement

1669

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Georgian Cupboard

1725-1750

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Leather covered perfume case, containing 4 glass bottles, a metal funnel and measure

1671-1700

Wax plaque in glazed wooden frame

1701-1730

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736