Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Half-penny coin
1799
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Compass
1800
Lancet owned by Edward Jenner
1720-1800
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model
1744-1774
Longcase clock by James and John Harrison
1728
Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison
1726-1728
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
George III's compound engine
1762
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
George III's double-barrelled air pump
1761
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742
1742
Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.
1740-1753
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Creamware plate
1771-1800
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications
1758-1773
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins
1758-1769
Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795
Divers Projets
1798
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Demainbray's turquoise disc
1745-1755