Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Boxwood human torso showing internal organs

1800-1920

Vaginal speculum

1801-1850

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

Statue depicting the dance of death

Tobacco jar in the shape of a skull

1701-1800

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Hicks patent mercurial minimum thermometer with brass sliding scale

1861

Six inch boxwood sector by Holtzapffel & Co.

Whistle

Multiplying wheel with a square axle hole

Pair of coloured glass discs, 1750.

1745-1755

Pounce Sprinkler

Terrestrial refracting telescope

1700-1750

Balance beam, steel, boxwood

1745-1755

Glover's sector

1839-1850

Double folding boxwood foot rule, calliper with vernier scale one end

1900-1920

Single folding boxwood six inch rule

1900-1920

Single folding boxwood metre rule

1900-1920

Gunter type

1620-1700

Triangular quadrant

1683

Single folding boxwood foot rule

1900-1920

Folding boxwood shoe measuring rule by I. & D. Smallwood

1900-1920

Mathematical reckoning rule

1750-1800

English horary quadrant, 1650-1725

1650-1725

Set of flat, boxwood, Napier's rods

1600-1699

Whirling speculum mirror with components

1762

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Navigator's Gunter scale in boxwood 24" long

circa 1775

Boxwood Sector, 1680-1720

1680-1720

Mathematical models, early 18th century.

1713-1750

Ready reckoner (musical)

1785-1790

Carved anatomical male figure

1801-1900

Bone apple scoop with wooden handle

1801-1900

Turned boxwood mortar

1801-1900

Zwanke's stem pessary

1851-1900

Boxwood rectal ointment introducer

1870-1930

Boxwood ointment introducer

1870-1930

Mercury dispenser(?), turned boxwood, incomplete,

1860-1920

Turned boxwood massage ball in wooden socket

1801-1900

Boxwood measuring cup

Powder box

1801-1900

Turned boxwood pill box

1890-1940

Turned boxwood container for missing glass bottle

1900-1940

Pessary, supportive, ring, boxwood, 1870-1930

1870-1930