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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

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

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Cutter, Alert

1755

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

Expedition Crane

1764

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Eight ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Cutter, Alert

1755

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