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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

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

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

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762