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George III's pendulum

1762

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs 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

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Expedition Crane

1764

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

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

1705-1737

George III's compound engine

1762