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

1770

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

Watch with double dial

1760

Cutter, Alert

1755

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

George III's glass sphere

1761

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Cutter, Alert

1755

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

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

1705-1737

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Quarter-repeating watch by Thomas Mudge

1755

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769