Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Compass

1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Half-penny coin

1799

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

The Patent Gymnasticon

1798

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

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

1795

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

An Iron Foundery, Colebrook Dale

1799

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

2000-100 BCE

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

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

1730; 1967

Glass traveller's companion, c.1800.

circa 1800