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Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

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

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

1767

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Expedition Crane

1764

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

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

1705-1737

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

Portable horizontal sundial in slate

1762

Mezzotint engraved portrait of Brindley by Dunkarton after Parsons

1770

Folding coin scale for weighing guineas and half-guineas

1774

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Engraving of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith

1770

Bronze medal

1763

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1773

Silver Coin of Augustus III (Poland)

1763

Guinea coin of George III

1773

Guinea coin of George III

1774

Four Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1774

Two Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1773

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Quarter-Sovereign coin of George III

1762