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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Richard Arkwright

1790

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Ellwood of Whitehaven phosphor

circa 1795

Wrought iron ring and hook used in underground canals. c.1800

circa 1800

Roman stone water main

30

19th Century Building Materials from Windsor Castle

1800s

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Companion / John Curr of Sheffield

1795

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Replica of Coalbrookdale Company Cast Iron Wagon Wheel

1800

Crossing for Edge Rails, 1793.

1793

Stone Sleeper

1800

Stone Sleeper

1800

Bronze medal to commemorate Marat, France, 1793

1793

Bronze medal to commemorate le Pelletier and Marat

1792-1800

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

White metal (alloy?) medal, commemorates the emigr

1794

Engraving, mezzotint, The Earl of Chesterfield's State Carriage

1800

Print, John Smeaton. Civil Engineer. F.R.S.

1798

Copper matrix

1800

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790