Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

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

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Silver pair cased watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

1670

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

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

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Table clock by Richard Baker

1675-1700

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

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

1675-1685

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Pair cased watch by Thomas Tompion

1670-1680

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Pair cased watch by Daniel Carre

1670

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

1671

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Watch, verge movement

1675

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Table clock in ebony case by Joseph Knibb

1675-1685

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700