Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
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
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
George III's compound engine
1762
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
George III's double-barrelled air pump
1761
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
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
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
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Turret clock movement by William Smith
1750
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
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar
1761
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision
1762
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766