Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Reproduction in wood. No 127
1808
Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black
1809
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'
1808
Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Creamware plate
1771-1800
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
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 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
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Half-penny coin
1806
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Leber-pattern dental forceps
1770-1800
Earthenware pill tile
1751-1800
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
‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin
1756-1800