Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

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

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Napier's Bones

1690

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

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

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

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

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

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Barber's shaving bowl

1730-1740

Shaving bowl

1680-1740

Clay tobacco pipe

1680-1700

Clay tobacco pipe

1680-1725

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Votive plaque

1738