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
Small white cup in soft paste porcelain
1748-1763
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795
Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar
1761
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
George III's tidal demonstration model
1762
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
King George III's friction machine
1762
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
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
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Cutter, Alert
1755
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
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
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE