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Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

1770

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

George III's pendulum

1762

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Edmund Culpeper

1720

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

1990-95

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

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

1705-1737

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

John Harrison, oil painting

1767

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

George III's compound engine

1762

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

King George III's friction machine

1762

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Clay tobacco pipe

1730-1770

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761