Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

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

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

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

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

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

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for extract of cinchona bark, Lambeth, London, England, 1710-1740

1710-1740

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Ioannes Guilielmus Weinmannus

1737

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

2000 BCE