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

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Architect's drawing instruments

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Improved Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

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

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Leather and boxwood spyglass telescope.

1680-1750

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

One of ten specimen examples of ornamental turning

1890-1913

Mercury-in-glass thermometer in wooden case

1850-1924

Early Platinum Electrical Resistance Thermometer, 1871-1890

1871-1890

Turned massage ball encased in turned socket

1801-1900

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

1765-1775

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

1800-1818

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Cook Slide Rule

1825-1834

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

Caliper stringing gauge

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

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

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