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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

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

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

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

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

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Cutter, Alert

1755

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

1778

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760