‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1752

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Earthenware pill tile

1751-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

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

circa 1800

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

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

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

King George III's friction machine

1762

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762