Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

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

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch with double dial

1760

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

1700-1725

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702