Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

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

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

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

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

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Black haematite Syrian weight, barrel shaped, from Gaza, Phoenician system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700

Screw barrelled microscope, rosewood, gilt brass stand

1680-1690

Aeolipile (c. 1680-1700)

1680-1700

Guinea coin of Charles II

1684

Schilling coin of Christian V (of Denmark and Norway)

1681

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1682

Five Guinea coin of Charles II

1680