Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

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

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

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

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

1715-1728

Culpeper microscope with boxfoot made by George Adams in 1738

1738

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2000-100 BCE

Roman stone water main

30

Newsham's Patent Manual Fire Engine

1721-1725

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Steel urethrotome

1801-1700

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Accessories for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Miniature spyglass telescope with boxwood case

1725-1735.

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Trade token

1724

Circular silver medal

1718

Medal to commemorate Philip, Baron de Stosch

1727

Bronze medal

1727

Silver medal commemorating Isaac Newton

1726

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)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE