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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

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

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

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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

George III's pendulum

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

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

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

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

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

King George III's central forces machine

1762

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

Half-penny coin

1806

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757