Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Booklet describing Verle's anatomical eye, Italy, 1679

1679

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Anatomical model of the eye with a descriptive booklet in a leather case, Italian, 1674-1679

1674-1679

The description and use of two arithmetick instruments : together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick : as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables ...

1673

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1684