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Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Sans Pareil

1829

Phrenological head

1821

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

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

1752

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800