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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

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

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

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