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Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Expedition Crane

1764

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

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

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's model crriage body

1762

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Roman stone water main

30

Milby Cut bridge girder, 1769

1769