Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Drug jar for cinchona bark
1701-1730
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
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
Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck
1730
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724
1724
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
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
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
Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936
1901-1936; 180 BCE
Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)
1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)
Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)
1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)
Bronze double-ended pestle with central flange
1701-1725
Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)
1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)
Watch movement with mock pendulum
1725
Cranial trephine in form of brace and bit
1701-1730
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Silver vinaigrette
1701-800
Silver vinaigrette
1701-1730
Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE
1991-1786 BCE
Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.
1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)
Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.
1720-1730
Yard measure, engraved: "Navy Office Deptford 1730"
1730