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

1770

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Silver star-shaped verge watch by David Ramsay

1625

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Compound microscope

1700

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Gunter quadrant

1640

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

‘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.

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

1770-1800

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790