Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

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

1680

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

1680

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1697

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Flint weight, Syrian Khoirine system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Small silver with ribbed edge

1683

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

1686

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500