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

1770

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Napier's Bones

1690

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Phrenological head

1821

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Sans Pareil

1829

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

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

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

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