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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Napier's Bones

1690

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Expedition Crane

1764

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Cutter, Alert

1755

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623