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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

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 rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

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

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1780

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

1767

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

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