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Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

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

1778

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

English wooden doll

circa 1780

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

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

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

1705-1737

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy

1775

Chronometer movement by John Arnold

1775

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864

Oil paintings

1773

Oil paintings

1774

Set of lithotomy instruments in fishskin case

1771-1780

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Apothecary's balance

1778-1780

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Transit telescope

1770

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

2000-100 BCE

Regulator clock made by Vulliamy for King George III

1780

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Steel urethrotome

1801-1700

Surface Condenser and Air Pump, England, 1775

1775

Remains of a Cornish pumping engine, 'Old Bess', built by James Watt, 1777.

1777

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE