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Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Infant feeding bottle, Germany, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1701-1750

Spoon

1701-1800

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

1720-1800

Earthenware plate, depicting the circumcision of Jesus

1701-1800

Model of a skeleton, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Small amputation saw by Braun, c.1730

1701-1800

Ivory enema syringe, France, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Oak medicine chest, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Memento mori ring remembering Augusta Bruce, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Silver eye bath, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Tinder pistol

1750-1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

circa 1800