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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1770

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch with double dial

1760

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725