Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

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

1853-1857

Architect's drawing instruments

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

Metal factors ruler incorporating sliding caliper marked Thomas Bradburn and Sons

Turned massage ball encased in turned socket

1801-1900

Half-block model

1810-1830

Napier's bones or rods

1671-1700

Boxwood slide rule

1860-1880

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Dines-type anemometer display, 1892-1900

1892-1900

Cavalry sketching board, 1910

1910

Surveyor's plane table outfit, 1881-1890

1881-1890

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

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

Improved hydrometer with four weights

1815-1825

Textile printing block

1795-1805

Textile printing block

1795-1805

Rectangular shaped textile printing block

1750-1830

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

Mercury-in-glass thermometer in wooden case

1850-1924

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

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Boxwood fathom marker

1876