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Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

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

Architect's drawing instruments

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

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

1853-1857

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

1800-1818

Imperial brass Troy Pound and mahogany case

1824

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Cook Slide Rule

1825-1834

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

Turned massage ball encased in turned socket

1801-1900

Boxwood slide rule

1860-1880

Improved hydrometer with four weights

1815-1825

Textile printing block

1795-1805

Rectangular shaped textile printing block

1750-1830

Textile printing block

1795-1805

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Weaving power loom shuttle

1858-1862

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Belt driven universal cutting frame

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Corn balance

1830-1850

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Boxwood Slide Rule; made by Dring and Fage

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

Cavalry sketching board, 1910

1910

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

Botanical model

1875-1900

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

Improved saccharometer

1825-1835

Botanical model

1875-1900

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Half-block model

1810-1830

Caliper stringing gauge