Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Divers Projets
1798
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall
1786
Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market
1800
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Deck watch by John Arnold and Son
1790
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son
1796
'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1800
Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940
1794
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise
1800
Compass
1800
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1783-1800
Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote
1800
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte
1800
Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips
1790
Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son
1795
Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son
1795
Pedometer by Spencer and Perkins
1775-1800
Silver watch by Brockbanks
1790
Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin
1785-1795
Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery
1792
Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts
1790
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Half-penny coin
1799
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790