Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wax plaque in glazed wooden frame

1701-1730

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Votive plaque

1690

Silver vinaigrette

1701-1730

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

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

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Ivory and wood back scratcher

1701-1730