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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

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

Sans Pareil

1829

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Tire fonds, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Lenticular, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

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

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

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

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

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795