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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

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

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

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

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

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

George III's pendulum

1762