Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

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 watch by Raymont

1772

Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy

1775

Chronometer movement by John Arnold

1775

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance

1770-1775

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Oil paintings

1769

Oil paintings

1773

Oil paintings

1774

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Transit telescope

1770

HMS Intrepid

1774

HMS Portland

1774

HMS Experiment

1775

HMS Portland

1774

HMS Ambuscade

1775

HMS Experiment

1775

HMS Royal George

1774

HMS Sphinx

1775

HMS Royal Oak

1774

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

1730; 1967

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden with case

1770-1775

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Ship's distance recorder, Foxton's patent perpetual log and drip tray

1770-1810

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Bronze medal

1774

Medal, silver, commemorating the Royal School of Surgery

1775

Medal, silver, of Royal School of Surgery

1775

Silver medal

1774

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE