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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

1785

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Spirit level

1790-1819

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1797-1804

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

circa 1800