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

1770

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

1770-1800

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Small musical table clock

1775-1799

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760