Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

1727-1728

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

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

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

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

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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.

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

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