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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1770

Napier's Bones

1690

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Compound microscope

1700

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

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

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a harp, France, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708