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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock

Time Measurement

1768-1769

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Hindley's pyrometer

King George III

1752

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

King George III

1700-1752

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

Clockmakers

1710

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

Cylindrical form of Napier's bones

Mathematics

c. 1700

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Thin-walled square glass bottle

King George III

1761

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

King George III

1752

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

Clockmakers

1794

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Barrel and Device from George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

Gold and leather pair-cased quarter-repeater cylinder watch by George Graham

Clockmakers

1745

Model diving bell

King George III

before 1753

Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Gold pair-cased verge repeater watch by William Webster

Clockmakers

1700-1725

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795