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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

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

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

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

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

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 turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

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

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

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

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