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Category
Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

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

Expedition Crane

1764

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watch with double dial

1760

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

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

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979