Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Storage jar

1714

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

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

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

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

1675-1685

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Leather covered perfume case, containing 4 glass bottles, a metal funnel and measure

1671-1700

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688