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Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Napier's Bones

1690

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Scold's Bridle Mask which partially covers face

1550-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Earthenware plate showing breast feeding, Italy, 1601-1800

1601-1800

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Small amputation saw by Braun, c.1730

1701-1800

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

compass

1700-1800

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600