Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
Expedition Crane
1764
Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications
1758-1773
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins
1758-1769
Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Cutter, Alert
1755
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
King George III's friction machine
1762
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 tidal demonstration model
1762
King George III's central forces machine
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son
1755-1765
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold
1770
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Wood moulding plane, dated 1771
1771
Textile printing block, rectangular
1760-1775 probable date
7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle
1758-1769
Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice
1772-1773
Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins
1758-1769
Eight ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications
1758-1773
Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.
1760-1772
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Cutter, Alert
1755
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Magnetic toy by George Adams
1765
George III's glass sphere
1761
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Model of Hooke's universal joint
1760
Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump
1761
George III's Magdeburg hemispheres
1761
George III's inclined plane and Horse-way
1762
George III's compound engine
1762