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Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1778

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Expedition Crane

1764

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

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

1705-1737

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Oil paintings

1769

Oil paintings

1773

Oil paintings

1774

Transit telescope

1770

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Shaving bowl

1767

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Empty wooden case, varnished, inscribed H.L.1772

1772

Old vertical cylinder frictional electrical machine

1765-1769

Steelyard balance for weighing gold coins

1775

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Solar microscope (dated 1770) signed B.MARTIN INVT ET FECIT LONDINI NO 34

1770

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Compound microscope by Joseph Brum

1772

Compound microscope signed J. D. V. Fokkenberg Fecit Utrecht 1777

1777

Figure-8 Microscope (c.1770)

1770

Mariner's compass

circa 1775

Coin balance with iron beam

1779

Polished steel equal-arm balance, 1772-1775

1772-1775

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Coade Stone fragment

1769

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast

1775

Letterpress, handbill with woodcut; Rolling Carts and Wagons

1770-1779

Medal, silver, commemorating Jo. Jac. Belleteste

1763