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

1770

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Rocket locomotive

1829

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

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

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Skull saw, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850