Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Leber-pattern dental forceps
1770-1800
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
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
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Porcelain eyebath
1775-1785
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Expedition Crane
1764
Half-penny coin
1799
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
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
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Divers Projets
1798
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1800
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1783-1800
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin
1785-1795
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789