Napier's Bones
1690
Month-going longcase clock by John May
1700-1710
Cupellation furnace
1696-1700
Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697
1697
Thomas Tuttell
1695-1702
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Watch movement by Thomas Tompion
1692
Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690
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
Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare
1710
Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers
1690-1695
Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson
circa 1710
Silver watch by Charles Gretton
1690
Gold watch by Brounker Watts
1700-1710
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Sundial making tool
1690-1710
Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare
1700-1710
Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell
1690
Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.
1701-1708
Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman
1690-1700
Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke
1695-1696
Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman
1700
Watch movement by Daniel Quare
1700
Astronomical table clock by Samuel Watson, believed to have belonged to Sir Isaac Newton
1690-1710
Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare
1708-1710
Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot
1700
Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon
1700
Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street
1700
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Compound microscope
1700
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton
1700
Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford
1700
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Cylindrical form of Napier's bones
circa 1700
Mathematical and Philosophical Works
1708
[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']
circa 1690
Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet
1701-1500
Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE
2000-100 BCE
Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods
1690-1710
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE