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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

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

Compass plane

1717

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Steel Mill used with Flint for Mine Lighting, 1730-1750

1730-1750

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

Drawing of Grand Orrery by Thomas Wright and engraving of 'The Grand Orrery' by John Rowley

1715-1728

Portable microscope by George Lindsay

1743

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740