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Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

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

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

1778

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Expedition Crane

1764

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

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

1705-1737