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Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

12 inch architectonic sector in ivory and silver

1733-1795

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre bands and splashes

1813

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Mrs. Sage

1785

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

1775-1794

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Surveyor's Level by Joseph Jackson

1735-60

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840