Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Napier's Bones

1690

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

1710

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

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

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Grey

1730

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691