Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Marine chronometer by John Arnold
1771
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Chronometer movement by John Arnold
1775
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Wood moulding plane, dated 1771
1771
Magnetic toy by George Adams
1765
Mezzotint portrait of John Bird
1776
Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold
1770
Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice
1772-1773
Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London
1765-1775
Expedition Crane
1764
Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest
1766
Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy
1775
Gold watch by Raymont
1772
Zinc discs, painted one side white with broad red line across the centre
1772-1773
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Terrestrial Globe by George Adams
1766
Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming
1766
Sextant by Jesse Ramsden
circa 1772
Arm for dividing apparatus built by James Watt
1772-1774
Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock
1768-1769
Celestial globe by George Adams
1766
Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott
1767
Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance
1770-1775
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Reproduction of Hargreaves's original Spinning Jenny
1765
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
John Harrison, oil painting
1767
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769
1768-1769
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964