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Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

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

1770

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

1752

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

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch with double dial

1760

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749