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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Gray

1730

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

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

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

1705-1737

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Andrew Dunlop

1740

Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham

1750

Watch in a porcelain case by J Grantham

1750

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Ornamental Turning 'Rose-Engine' Lathe

1740

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740