Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision
1762
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
King George III's friction machine
1762
Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar
1761
George III's tidal demonstration model
1762
King George III's central forces machine
1762
Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott
1767
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
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Cutter, Alert
1755
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Watch with double dial
1760
Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London
1765-1775
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Great spinning wheel
c.1750
Demainbray's convex mirror
1752
Demainbray's model of a camera obscura
1752
Wax male anatomical figure
1750-1774
George III's glass sphere
1761
Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump
1761
George III's inclined plane and Horse-way
1762
Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars
1761
Two brass pillars for an air pump
1761
Skeletonised watch movement by Peter Amyot
1750-1775
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Magnetic toy by George Adams
1765
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
George III's Magdeburg hemispheres
1761