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Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Facial mask

1501-1800

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Scold's Bridle Mask which partially covers face

1550-1800

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

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

1752

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762