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Date

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1778

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Cutter, Alert

1755

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Gold and enamel watch by Andrews

1785-1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

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

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

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1785-1790

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755