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George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Socrates

1790-1819

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Plaster bust

1790-1819

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

1785-1790

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model locomotion no 1

1825