Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model
1744-1774
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Demainbray's syphon
1701-1752
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Demainbray's polemoscope
1701-1752
Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels
1735-1752
Demainbray's turquoise disc
1745-1755
Demainbray's yellow disc
1745-1755
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac
1725-1755
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
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
Pharmacy jar for bugloss
1725-1775
Edmund Culpeper
1720
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision
1762
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749
1740-1749
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Porcelain eyebath
1775-1785
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
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
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
King George III's friction machine
1762