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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1778

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Cutter, Alert

1755

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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 turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

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

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

1780

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

1767