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Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Architect's drawing instruments

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Napier's Bones

1690

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Reproduction in boxwood, "Dr Black 1808 Scr."

1807

Boxwood copy of Trafalgar medal

1805-1819

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Improved Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Wollaston-type optometer

1825-1835

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Weaving power loom shuttle

1858-1862

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Botanical model

1875-1900

Botanical model

1875-1900

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

eights and mercury thermometer from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), and original correspondence for Constantinople and Iona

1800-1818

Cook Slide Rule

1825-1834

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Mercury-in-glass thermometer in wooden case

1850-1924

Early Platinum Electrical Resistance Thermometer, 1871-1890

1871-1890

Caliper stringing gauge

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

1765-1775

Drawing scale, boxwood

1790-1819

Engineer's slide rule, boxwood

1790-1819

Leather and boxwood spyglass telescope.

1680-1750

Surveyor's plane table outfit, 1881-1890

1881-1890

Gilt customs and excise standard no 1 (Sikes) hydrometer by J J Hicks

1870-1930

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Turned massage ball encased in turned socket

1801-1900

Folding Rule

1875-1885

Agnew's Patent Slide Rule

1913

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

Half-block model

1810-1830

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction in boxwood, featuring male bust

1807

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

New Improved' universal compound microscope with fitted mahogany case

1785-1795

Terrestrial hand telescope

1675-1685