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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Napier's Bones

1690

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1770

Sans Pareil

1829

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Tire fonds, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Lenticular, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

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 turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

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

1640

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800