Napier's Bones
1690
Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.
1680
Telescope by John Yarwell.
1685-1695
Cupellation furnace
1696-1700
Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697
1697
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
Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion
1695-1700
Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers
1690-1695
Silver watch by Charles Gretton
1690
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Compound microscope
1700
Telescope by John Marshall
1685-1695
Handheld reading lens and case
1680-1700
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
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 with quarter chiming by William Speakman
1690-1700
Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke
1695-1696
Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton
1700
Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman
1700
Watch movement by Daniel Quare
1700
Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford
1700
Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot
1700
Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon
1700
Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper
1680-1685
Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street
1700
Wooden Acupuncture Model
1681
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
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
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Cylindrical form of Napier's bones
circa 1700
[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
Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691
1686-1691