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

1770

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

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

1780

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

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

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Small musical table clock

1775-1799

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

‘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

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

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

1767

Watch with double dial

1760

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792