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Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

George III's weighted cylinder

King George III

1762

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

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

King George III

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Flute foot-joint end

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Wooden tuning key for a stringed instrument

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Cylindrical condensing chamber

King George III

1761

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

King George III's central forces machine

King George III

1762

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Head joint from flute

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

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

Clockmakers

1770

1¼” steel firmer chisel in octagonal wood handle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

George III's clockwork bell

King George III

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

King George III

1762

Flute foot-joint, with slot cut for flute key

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Barometer printing plate, inscribed " I.Watt Glasgow"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1756-1757

Model diving bell

King George III

before 1753

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Thin-walled square glass bottle

King George III

1761

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

King George III

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

King George III

1752

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Plane table outfit

Surveying

1750-1766

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

King George III

1762

King George III's friction machine

King George III

1762

George III's model crriage body

King George III

1762

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

1 Pulley 2¼” dia. on tapering spindle, with 3 milled ball cutters

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Wooden lathe mandrel for turning of flutes

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Plate for printing calibrated scales for barometers

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1756-1757

Flute maker's stamp for producing impression of 'T. .Lot'

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-69