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Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Expedition Crane

1764

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

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

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

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

1705-1737

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's glass sphere

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Oil paintings

1769

Transit telescope

1770

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Glass bulb, with collar, plug, tap and circular base plate

1761

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Shaving bowl

1767

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

1990-95

Empty wooden case, varnished, inscribed H.L.1772

1772