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Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

1752

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Earthenware pill tile

1751-1800

Pair of obstetrical forceps

1751-1800

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Spoon with folding handle

1778

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

circa 1800

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Tinder pistol

1750-1800

Creamware plate

1771-1800

George III's pendulum

1762

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

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

1785-1790

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752