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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

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

1770

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

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

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

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

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

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

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

1767

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch with double dial

1760

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739