Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

horological gravers

1850-1900

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

horological file

1850-1900

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

horological rubber

1850-1900

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

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

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590