Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
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
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Expedition Crane
1764
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
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Cutter, Alert
1755
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
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
Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud
1767
Turret clock movement by William Smith
1750
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
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
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
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
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE