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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Tinder pistol

1750-1800

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

George III's pendulum

1762

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797