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

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

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

1752

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 pendulum

1762

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

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

1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Spoon with folding handle

1778

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

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776