Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1705-1737

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

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

2500 BCE

Earthenware posset pot

1725-1750

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

Earthenware snuff storage jar

1710-1750

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1710-1740

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Diagonal Spy Glass

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

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

1718

Trade card: John Fowler, at the Globe in Sweeting's Alley

1738

Trade card: Mr. Dillon

1722

Trade card: H. Moll. Geographer

1727

Trade card: Thomas Heath

1720-1747

Trade card: James Mann & James Ayscough. At the Sign of Sir Isaac Newton and two pair of Golden Spectacles

1747

Trade card: B. Scott & C. Price

1718

Trade card: Jonathan Sisson

1737

Trade card: Will[iam] Salmon Jnr. 1733. Illustration of a scale

1733

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931