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Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham

1750-1760

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Male urinal, Netherlands, 1740-1760

1740-1760

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Clay tobacco pipe

1730-1770

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

Section of track

1745-1755

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Eight ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Cutter, Alert

1755

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762