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Category
Collection
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Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1701-1800

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

1770

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Carved ivory model of a skull, with teeth present

1701-1800

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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Infant feeding bottle, Germany, 1701-1800

1701-1800

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

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

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

Tinder pistol

1750-1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a harp, France, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

‘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

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

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

1784

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

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