Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

1727-1728

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Blue maolica albarello

1670-1730

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Blue maiolica albarello

1670-1730

Storage jar

1714

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Compound microscope

1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)