Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

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

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Storage jar

1714

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

1712

Silver watch with differential dial by John Bushman

1700

Pair cased watch by Christopher Egelton

1700

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Watch movement by Daniel Quare

1700

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Silver repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Square-shaped watch by Francis Raynsford

1700

Watch with mock pendulum, by M. Martinot

1700

Watch with mock pendulum by David Lestourgeon

1700

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Watch with '15 minute' hand by Richard Street

1700

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

1990-95

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)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Model of Newsham's pump piston

1721

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

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