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Collection
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Object type
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Place of origin
Archive
Date

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Frame saw

1700-1800

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Small amputation saw by Braun, c.1730

1701-1800

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

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 rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762