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

Clockmakers

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

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

King George III

1761

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

Clockmakers

1776

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

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

Clockmakers

1794

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

King George III

1752

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

Clockmakers

1760-1790

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

King George III

1762

Demainbray's scioptric ball

King George III

1745-1755

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

King George III

1735-1752

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

Clockmakers

1785

Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock

Time Measurement

1768-1769

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1784

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Flute foot-joint end by James Watt

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769