Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

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

1680

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

1670

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Watch, verge movement

1675

Table clock in ebony case by Joseph Knibb

1675-1685

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Silver medal to commemorate the appearance of a comet

1681

Large bronze medal commemorating Francisco Redi

1684

Large gilt bronze medal

1684

Screw barrelled microscope, rosewood, gilt brass stand

1680-1690

Guinea coin of Charles II

1684

Schilling coin of Christian V (of Denmark and Norway)

1681

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1682

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1680

Five Guinea coin of James II

1687

Penny coin of Charles II

1674

Penny coin of Charles II

1677

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE