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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

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

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Cutter, Alert

1755

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

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

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762