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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

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

1770

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

George III's pendulum

1762

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wax male anatomical figure

1750-1774

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Cutter, Alert

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Richard Arkwright

1790

1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

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

1705-1737

1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

Walker, John

1781 - 1859

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780