Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

horological gravers

1850-1900

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

horological rubber

1850-1900

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

horological file

1850-1900

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665