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Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

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

1752

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

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

1705-1737

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Ear trumpet

1752

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

5 lancets

1744

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Set of flat troy penny weights in fitted mahogany case

1737

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

A Chain Bridge

1753