Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Socrates

1790-1819

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

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

1776-1780

Obstetric forceps

1780-1820

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

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

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

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

King George III's friction machine

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

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