Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Compass plane

1717

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

Trade card: Mr. Dillon

1722

Trade card: B. Scott & C. Price

1718

Small Austrian balance

1700-1710

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Cased set of jeweller's scales, signed "John Snart"

1700-1710

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

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

1710

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

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