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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1770

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Wax male anatomical figure

1750-1774

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

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

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

1780

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

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

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

1778

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762