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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Four-part plaster leg

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould

1790-1819

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

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

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Spoon with folding handle

1778

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

model locomotion no 1

1825

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828