The Antikythera Mechanism
c. 150-100 BC · Bronze plates and gearing in a wooden case
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Clocks and instruments
16 records
Breguet No. 160, the Marie-Antoinette
1783 · Gold
L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem
John Harrison's Marine Timekeepers, H1 to H4
1730-1735 · H1
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
The Jaquet-Droz Automata (The Writer, The Draughtsman, The Musician)
1768-1774 · Brass
Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchatel
Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion
c. 1677-80 · Case
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Antikythera Mechanism
c. 205 BC · Cast and hand-cut bronze
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
K1 Marine Chronometer
1766-1769 · Brass fusee movement with verge escapement...
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
The Behaim Globe (Erdapfel)
1492-1494 · Two clay-moulded hemispheres laminated in...
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Astrolabe of 'Umar ibn Yusuf ibn 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari
690 AH / 1291 CE · Brass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Marine Chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw
c. 1800 · Brass movement
British Museum, London
Celestial Globe with Clockwork
1579 · Case
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Marine Timekeeper known as H5
1770 · Silver
Science Museum, London