Napier's Bones
1690
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
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
Compound microscope
1701-1723
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Compound microscope
1700
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Thomas Tuttell
1695-1702
Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine
1717-1725
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc
circa 1711
Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697
1697
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Sector by Bion
1700-1720
Amulet and charm to protect against plague
1690-1710
Cupellation furnace
1696-1700
Graphometer with magnetic compass
1710-1720
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Cylindrical form of Napier's bones
circa 1700
Sundial making tool
1690-1710
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Compass plane
1717
Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa
1725
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Working model of Hero's Aeolipile
100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Replica Bavarian reckoning cloth, German, 16th century.
1501-1600; 1972
Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler
1715-1725
Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb
1991-1783 BCE
Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene
1725
Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers
1725
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Month-going longcase clock by John May
1700-1710
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.
8500-2000 BCE
Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare
1700-1710
Astronomical table clock by Samuel Watson, believed to have belonged to Sir Isaac Newton
1690-1710
Astronomical clock by Samuel Watson
1690-1710
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur
1700-1725