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Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1770

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

1752

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

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham

1750-1760

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Mural arc made for King George III

1770