Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1785-1790

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

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

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

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Earthenware pill tile

1751-1800

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

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

Half-penny coin

1799