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Date

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Napier's Bones

1690

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1770

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

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

1780

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

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

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight 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

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762