Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
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
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
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
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Porcelain eyebath
1775-1785
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Expedition Crane
1764
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications
1758-1773
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
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Cutter, Alert
1755
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
King George III's friction machine
1762
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision
1762
Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar
1761