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Prince of Wales microscope

1754-1757

Bachelor's Stove by James Watt

1760

Longcase clock made by J. Standring, c. 1760

circa 1760

Set of Grain Weights, made for Lord Carysfort's 1758 Committee

1755-1758

Rigged model of 'Santa Maria'

1920-1923; 1963

Smeaton's Apparatus for Determining the Efficiency of Water Wheels

1988 (model); 1752 (original)

Stone weight, ....tedly Egyptian, 2000BC-1000

2000-1000

Volute compass with six instrumental accessories

1760
Watch, peasants, with verge movement and enamelled consular case

Watch, peasants, with verge movement and enamelled consular case

circa 1760
Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1760
Excavated bronze age skull showing 4 healed trephinings, from Jericho, 2200-2000BC

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

2200-2000 BCE
Model of Douglas D.C,-3 aircraft, scale 1:24.

Douglas DC-3 'Dakota', late 1930s.

1939-45
Gold finger ring, rectangulr setting of glass or crystal containing painted image of a skull, band bears champleve enamel inscription, 1751

Ring bearing image of skull

1751
Portrait of George III by Allan Ramsay, 1758-60

Portrait of George III by Allan Ramsay, 1758-60

1758-1760
Model of English Electric "Lightning" aircraft, scale 1:24.

English Electric Lightning, 1949-1960.

1949-60
Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80
Watch with cylinder movement

Watch

1751
Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1760
Model experimental cart with six wheels, maker unknown, before 1753.

model experimental cart

1753
Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, brass, laurel wreath with crown and SE&CR over, 1901-23. Dimensions: 1" dia.

Brass button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1901-23
Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, brass. Laurel wreath with crown surmounted by SE&CR, back marked 'Superb Quality'. Dimensions: 17mm dia.

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1901-23
Metal memento mori finger ring, set with oval transparent stone, faceted, containing a skull and cross-bones, with ornate band bearing champleve inscription, 1758

Memento mori finger ring

1758
Export hydrometer made by James Clarke, no.3599, with 23 screw on bottom poise weights and 11 stem weights, in sharkskin case, c. 1760

Export hydrometer made by James Clarke

1760
Sundial, ring

Ring Sundial

1760
Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1759
Model of English Electric "Canberra" Jet bomber, scale 1:24.

The English Electric Canberra jet bomber, 1950.

1950-59
Pair of smoker's tongs, wrought iron with standing pin, one handle fashioned into tobacco tamper, owned by a W.F, English, 1751

Pair of smoker's tongs

1751
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Hahnemann, Samuel

1755 - 1843
Copy, in silver and gold, of a 10th century Saxon pocket sundial, unsigned, 1939-1950. Original found in the Cloister Garth of Canterbury Cathedral in 1939, with gnomon and chain for suspension. The gnomon is inserted into the hole that corresponds to the appropriate month, then suspended by the chain.

Replica of a 10th Century Saxon Pocket Sundial, 1939-1950

1939-1950 (replica); 901-1000 CE (original)

Telford, Thomas

1757 - 1834

Cobb, James

1756 - 1818

Reynolds, William

1758 - 1803

Beddoes, Thomas

1760 - 1808

Bill, Robert

1754 - 1827

Thompson, Benjamin (Count von Rumford)

1753 - 1814

Bentham, Samuel

1757 - 1831

Currie, James

1756 - 1805
1752-1840, physician; naturalist; physiologist; anthropologist. German

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich

1752 - 1840
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1754-1811, engraver, French

Chrétien, Gilles Louis

1754 - 1811
1757-1838, artist; painter, Austrian

Grassi, Józef

1757 - 1838
1755-1816, engraver; artist; draughtsman, Swedish

Martin, Johann Frederik

1755 - 1816
1753-1814, scientist; natural philosopher; philanthropist, American-born; British?

Thompson, Count von Rumford, Sir Benjamin

1753 - 1814
1758-1840, physician; astronomer, German

Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias

1758 - 1840
1758-1828, millwright, French

Brezin, Michel

1758 - 1828
1756-1823, artist; portraitist, Scottish; British

Raeburn, Sir Henry

1756 - 1823
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1759-1842, mechanical engineer, English; British

Vivian, Andrew

1759 - 1842
1757-1834, civil engineer, Scottish; British

Telford, Thomas

1757 - 1834
1753-1835, active, 1804-1826, optician & mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, Edward

1753 - 1835