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Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Watch with double dial

1760

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham

1750-1760

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Quarter-repeating watch by Thomas Mudge

1755

Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham

1750

Watch in a porcelain case by J Grantham

1750

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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 the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Pair of pharmacy storage jars, Naples, Italy, 1756

1756

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

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

1753-1754

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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