Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg
1771-1800
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Small white cup in soft paste porcelain
1748-1763
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Expedition Crane
1764
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
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
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742
1742
Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.
1740-1753
Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800
1771-1800
Tinder pistol
1750-1800
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Creamware plate
1771-1800
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
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795