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Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Trade card: Fisher Combes

1730-1736

John Bennet

1740

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Watch movement with experimental escapement

1736-1740

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Glass Trough (c. 1730) similar to M.6 (1993-1317) but without foot

1730

Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer

1737-1738

Chest microscope

1750

Pamphlet for pocket microscope by James Mann and James Ayscough

1743

The Creation

1737

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Analemmatic sundial for latitude 52[o]

1732

Engraving, A First View of Practical Chymistry

1747

The Chymist

1750

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Trade Bill Le Sr. Magny

1750

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

medal, silver, diamond shape

1718

Culpeper-Wilson compound microscope

1730

Ioannes Guilielmus Weinmannus

1737

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748