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Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

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

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Cutter, Alert

1755

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

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

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

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

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

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782