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Date

Napier's Bones

1690

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

1770

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

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 tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

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

1680

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch with double dial

1760

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755