Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion
1675-1679
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Camera Obscura
1701-1752
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Orrery by Thomas Wright
1735-1745
Moon globe by John Russell, England, 1797
1797
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen
1607-1653
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
Telescope by Christopher Cock
1673
Slide rule by Robert Bissaker
1654
wheel cutting machine
1668-1672 Probable
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Compound microscope
1700
Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion
1675-1700
George III's philosophical table
1761-1762
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin
1756-1800
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Thomas Tuttell
1695-1702
Table clock by Nicholas Vallin
1598-1603
Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell
1593-1610
Telescope by John Marshall
1685-1695
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton
1650-1665
Telescope by John Yarwell.
1685-1695
Demainbray's polemoscope
1701-1752
Pair of seventeenth-century dividers
1600-1699
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Gunter quadrant
1640
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes
1648-1687
CAROLVS II.
1667
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
George III's pendulum
1762
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Gunter sector signed Elias Allen
1623
Mrs. Sage
1785
Brass-bound lodestone
1675-1700