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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

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

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

Hindley's pyrometer

King George III

1752

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

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

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

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

Clockmakers

1745-1755

George III's glass sphere

King George III

1761

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

.Unattributed

1744-1774

Wooden tuning key for a stringed instrument

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1773

Plane table outfit

Surveying

1750-1766

King George III's friction machine

King George III

1762

Twelve-inch quadrant by John Bird

Astronomy

1760-1769

Altazimuth theodolite

Surveying

1755-1765
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Three circular saw blades

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1773

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

King George III

1760-1772

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Head joint from flute

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Barometer printing plate, inscribed " I.Watt Glasgow"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1756-1757

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

Clockmakers

1776

William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Case for William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742