Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

1720-1800

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

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

1636

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752