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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

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

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

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

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s