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

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1752

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

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

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

1770-1800

Watch with double dial

1760

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Small musical table clock

1775-1799

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778