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Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Plaster cast, profile bust

1790-1819

Cupid and Psyche

1790-1819

Plaster cast, Venus

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Egyptian head

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

plaster cast of hand

1790-1819

Steel dental key, England, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

12 inch architectonic sector in ivory and silver

1733-1795

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Mrs. Sage

1785

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Compound microscope

1700

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

George III's glass sphere

1761

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

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

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

1775-1794

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

Upper denture, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Cutter, Alert

1755

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance

1770-1775