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George III's pendulum

1762

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1778

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

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

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Expedition Crane

1764

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742