Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Compound microscope

1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

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 amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Table clock in tortoiseshell case by Fromanteel and Clarke

1695-1696

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Tin medal

1704

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Bronze medal by Ferdinand St. Urbain commemorating Marcello Malpighi

1693

Circular bronze medal

1706

Grano bronze coin

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

Bronze token for supplier of drugs in Paris(?), ar

1706

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Circular matt silver medal

1707

White medal

1694

Circular silver medal with suspension loop

1707

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

White metal medal

1703

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Silver medal commemorating the "Sindics generaux des Rentes"

1707

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Bronze medal

1704

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705

Tinder box with flint lock mechanism

circa 1700

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

1701