Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742
1742
Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.
1740-1753
Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model
1735-1754.
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels
1735-1752
Demainbray's rat's tail crane model
1735-1753
Demainbray's turquoise disc
1745-1755
Demainbray's yellow disc
1745-1755
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
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
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall
1786
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Deck watch by John Arnold and Son
1790
Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940
1794
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
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
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge
1755