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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

George III's compound engine

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761