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Date

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Stop-watch movementwith cylinder escapement

1766

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Optical cabinet made by B. Martin about 1771

1771

Figure-8 Microscope (c.1770)

1770

Pocket microscope in silver

1770

Silver medal commemorating a terrible flood of 20 and 21st November 1776 but location unknown

1776-1777

Verge watch in case with pendulum balance

1776

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Trade token

1772

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

1770

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

1777

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Doctor Cullen

1772

Compound microscope by Joseph Brum

1772

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

R Lovett

1766

Henry Pyefinch

1765

Portrait, Sir George Savile Bart.

1770

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Print, line engraving. WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

1777

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Goldsmith's drawplate, French, 1766

1766

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

The Farrier's Shop

1771

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE