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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

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 repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

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 a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

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 repeating watch by Daniel Quare

1708-1710

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Storage jar

1714

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Circular silver medal

1718

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914