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Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

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

1705-1737

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Section of track

1745-1755

Cutter, Alert

1755

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

Anamorphic picture, early 18th century, with cone mirror, wooden cover and two anamorphic pictures

1745-1753

General Roy's standard scale by Jonathan Sisson, 1742

1742

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Book, by Colin Maclaurin. An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

1750

Pair of coloured glass discs, 1750.

1745-1755

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Prior Park, the Seat of Ralph Allen, Esqre, near Bath

1752

Portrait print from etching of Gowin Knight, 1751

1751

James Ayscough

1748-1759

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750