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Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

1670

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

CAROLVS II.

1667

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Pair cased watch by Thomas Tompion

1670-1680

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

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

1671

Watch, verge movement

1675

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Islamic Astrolabe

1666-1667

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

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

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

1880-120

Finger ring, metal, with receptacle for relics

1680

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1676

Two washers

15/7/27

Case of Dutch Jeweller's Scales and Carat weights

1676

Bronze bell-shaped mortar

1666

Two washers

15/7/27