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

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

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

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

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

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

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

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

3000-2500 BCE

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1684

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Mezzotint print of oil painting, portrait of Isaac Newton, 1712

1712

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Claude Perrault

1688-1720

Tin medal

1704