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Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rocket locomotive

1829

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Wax male anatomical figure

1750-1774

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

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

circa 1800

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Socrates

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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