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Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

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

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Cutter, Alert

1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

George III's glass sphere

1761

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Cutter, Alert

1755

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

Mezzotint. Portrait of John Dollond. F.R.S. by J.R

1761

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Brass truncated cone

1761

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Prior Park, the Seat of Ralph Allen, Esqre, near Bath

1752

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Silver medal commemorating Charles Alexander Loth

1756

One cinquina

1752

Medal, copper of Dean Jean-Baptiste Louis Chomel

1756

Brass medal

1758

Bronze prize medal

1758

Circular silver medal

1756

Bronze medal

1759

Commemorative medal

1759

Medal, silver, commemorating Jean-Baptiste Louis Chomel

1756

Circular bronze medal

1754