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

1770

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

George III's compound engine

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

1752

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

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

1767