Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Napier's Bones
1690
Brunel, Marc Isambard
1769 - 1849
Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.
1680
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Small white cup in soft paste porcelain
1748-1763
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Expedition Crane
1764
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a harp, France, 1701-1800
1701-1800
Creamware plate
1771-1800
Rectangular wooden board, for stamping out lozenges
1701-1800
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Sector by Bion
1700-1720
Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc
circa 1711
Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724
1685-1724
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
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