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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Napier's Bones

1690

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

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

1775-1785

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1701-1750

Spoon

1701-1800

Small amputation saw by Braun, c.1730

1701-1800

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

compass

1700-1800

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

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 rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'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

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