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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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1778

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

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

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663