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George III's pendulum

1762

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

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

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

1705-1737

George III's glass sphere

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Mezzotint. Portrait of John Dollond. F.R.S. by J.R

1761

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Brass truncated cone

1761

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Circular silver medal

1761-1762

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Striker mechanism, for use with falling body acceleration demonstrations

1762

Motion and Velocity Illustration Instrument

1762

Glass flask; glass stopper; brass capped

1761

Brass disc for air pump, 1761

1761

Brass disc for air pump, 1761

1761

globe

1761

Attachment for the pillar of the philosophical table

1762

Two brass pulley blocks by Adams

1762

Brass Arm for wind fountain

1761

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Parabola, mahogany

1762

Triangle, mahogany

1762

Grooved disc with five spherical beads attached by a thread

1761

Knife edged prism for centre of gravity experiments

1762