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Hindley's pyrometer

King George III

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

King George III

1752

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

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.

Demainbray's turquoise disc

King George III

1745-1755

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

Gold and enamel pair-cased quarter-repeating cylinder watch by Thomas Mudge

Clockmakers

1755

Demainbray's scioptric ball

King George III

1745-1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

King George III

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex mirror

King George III

1752

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Demainbray's yellow disc

King George III

1745-1755

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

King George III

1752

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755), 22 screw on weights

Experimental Chemistry

1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

Art

1755

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Temporary Exhibitions

c.1750

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

Astronomy

1747

Trade card for James Ayscough, optician, London, England, 1749-1750

.Unattributed

1749-1750
Model experimental cart with six wheels, maker unknown, before 1753.

model experimental cart

King George III

1753

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Glass bell, with suspension ring

King George III

1750
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Hahnemann, Samuel

1755 - 1843

Model, scale 1:24, Perronet's self-contained Crane

Lifting & Mechanical Handling

c. 1751

Flax Spinning Wheel

Textile Industry

1745-1755

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Early day and night telescope signed Dollond, Lond

Optics

1750-1752

Cutter, Alert

IM

1755

Prior Park, the Seat of Ralph Allen, Esqre, near Bath

Anthony Walker

1752

Curved glass tube, 4ft chord

King George III

1750

Microscope (dated 1754), signed F. WATKINS LONDON.

Microscopes

1754

Anamorphic picture, one of two, by George Adams

King George III

1745-1753
Model of a tipping cart. Probably from the collection of Stephen Demainbray.

Model of a tipping cart

King George III

c. 1750

Walking Stick Telescope (c.1750), two lenses, focu

Optics

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

Microscopes

1752
Model of a tipping cart.

Model of a tipping cart, c. 1750

King George III

1748-1753

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Cronstedt's discovery of nickel in 1751

Experimental Chemistry

1751

Apothecaires' balance, with weights, in fish-skin covered case, 1750

Weighing & Measuring

1750

Model of British Landscape, c 1750

Environmental Science & Technology

1750

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE