Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud
1767
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
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
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
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Demainbray's wharf jib crane model
1729-1753
Demainbray's rat's tail crane model
1735-1753
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
King George III's friction machine
1762
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 tidal demonstration model
1762
King George III's central forces machine
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall
1786
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold
1770-1780
Deck watch by John Arnold and Son
1790
Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940
1794
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte
1740-1760