Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
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
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
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
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Weights and measures
1805
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742
1742
Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800
1720-1800
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
Small white cup in soft paste porcelain
1748-1763
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
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 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
Creamware plate
1771-1800
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Cutter, Alert
1755
Demainbray's model scorpion catapult
1745-1755
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790