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Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Skull saw, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Lenticular, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Tire fonds, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1830

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

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

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805