Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

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

1853-1857

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Architect's drawing instruments

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Wollaston-type optometer

1825-1835

Drawing scale, boxwood

1790-1819

Engineer's slide rule, boxwood

1790-1819

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

1870-1930

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

1765-1775

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction in boxwood, "Dr Black 1808 Scr."

1807

Reproduction in boxwood, featuring male bust

1807

Boxwood copy of Trafalgar medal

1805-1819

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

New Improved' universal compound microscope with fitted mahogany case

1785-1795

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

1880

Terrestrial hand telescope

1675-1685

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705

Wood engraved block, 1867-1900

1867-1900

Boxwood Harrow Mark Reducer slide rule by E.S.A.

Slide rule for interest calculations

1824

Four foot gauging rule

1804-1844

Timber Slide Rule

1789-1810

C. Hoare's pocket plate and bar slide rule

Boxwood sector (6-inch) by W.F Stanley & Company

1876

Refracting terrestrial telescope by Mann & Ayscough

1740-1750

Beam compasses

1876

Textile printing block of irregular shape

1750-1830

Textile printing block

1750-1830

Irregular shaped textile printing block

1750-1830

Narrow rectangular Textile printing block

1800-1825

Brass Quin's saccharometer

1801-1830

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

Atkins' saccharometer by Dring and Fage