Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

1720-1800

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Earthenware pill tile

1751-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

George III's pendulum

1762

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775