Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Compound microscope

1700

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

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

1990-95

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Silver touchpiece

1701-1715

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Votive plaque

1698

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

Italian albarello vase

1700

Barometer by Daniel Quare c1690

circa 1700

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

Small Austrian balance

1700-1710

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Inscribed sundial

1701-1725

Bronze bell shaped mortar

1727

Large bronze mortar

1700

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

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

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719