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George III's pendulum

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Socrates

1790-1819

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Plaster bust

1790-1819

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Plaster mould

1790-1819

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

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

1784

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

1785-1790

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852