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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

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

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham

1750

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Gold repoussé pair cased watch by Windmills

1720

Watch in a porcelain case by J Grantham

1750

Storage jar

1714

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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 the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Altazimuth theodolite, British, 1725-1747

1725-1747

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Ioannes Guilielmus Weinmannus

1737

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

'Le Chirurgien de Campagne', engraving by Thomas Major, France, 1747

1747

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719