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Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Grave marker, grave '221'

1860-1920

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Compound microscope

1700

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Cylindrical form of Napier's bones

circa 1700

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Wooden Cross-staff.

1687

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Galileo

1884

Plaster replica of a Greek statue of Asklepios

1860-1920; 500-401 BCE

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

1686

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Plaster replica of a Greek state of Asklepios

1860-1920; 500-401 BCE

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Haematite weight, Syrian

2200 BCE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Swedish subfossil pine sample, 1998; 1600 BCE

1684-1569 BCE; 1998

Pottery vase, from Nihawnad, Persia, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE