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

1785-1790

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

1784

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Divers Projets

1798

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Compass

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Marine chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw

1795-1805

Gold watch by Recordon

1807

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

A Royal watch by Samuel Houston

1807