Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1697

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Napier's Bones

1690

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

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Posset pot with Chinese decoration

1701-1750

Storage jar

1714

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

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

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681