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Collection
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Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Creamware plate

1771-1800

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

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

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

1770-1800

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Small musical table clock

1775-1799

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784