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

1770

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

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

1780

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Spoon with folding handle

1778

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

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