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Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Expedition Crane

1764

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

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

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

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

1767

Watch with double dial

1760

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Model of cylinder with separate condenser, formerly described as the "original" model.

Watt's second separate condenser, 1765.

1765

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

1768

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Oil paintings

1769

Apparatus for filling barometer tube

1761

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769

1768-1769

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

John Harrison, oil painting

1767

Roman stone water main

30

Milby Cut bridge girder, 1769

1769