Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model
1744-1774
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Camera Obscura
1701-1752
Longcase clock by James and John Harrison
1728
Orrery by Thomas Wright
1735-1745
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine
1717-1725
Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle
1775-1785
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Month-going longcase clock by John May
1700-1710
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Dividing engine for making sextants and octants
Made late 1700s, modified 1800s
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Compound microscope
1701-1723
Dental key
1725-1780
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
George III's philosophical table
1761-1762
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison
1726-1728
Compound microscope
1700
Great spinning wheel
c.1750
Majolica pharmacy jar
1730-1750
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Wax male anatomical figure
1750-1774
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare
1700-1710
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Turret clock movement by William Smith
1750
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge
1785
Richard Arkwright
1790
Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler
1715-1725
Demainbray's polemoscope
1701-1752
Cutter, Alert
1755
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790