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Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Creamware plate

1771-1800

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

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

1778

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

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

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

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

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

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762