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George III's pendulum

1762

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

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Expedition Crane

1764

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

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

1705-1737

George III's glass sphere

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's model crriage body

1762

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Gold pocket watch and chain, with winding key and case, possibly owned by James Symes

1768

Mezzotint. Portrait of John Dollond. F.R.S. by J.R

1761

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Book, by Benjamin Martin. A Plain and Familiar Introduction to the Newtonian Experimental Philosophy

1765

Oil paintings

1769

Reflecting telescope with trolly stand, 1767-1768

1767-1768

Brass truncated cone

1761

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE