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
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
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Wax male anatomical figure
1776-1780
Marine chronometer by John Arnold
1771
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
English wooden doll
circa 1780
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Chronometer movement by John Arnold
1775
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter
1780
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Wood moulding plane, dated 1771
1771
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1784
Mezzotint portrait of John Bird
1776
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs
1778-1780
Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold
1770
Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold
1770-1780
Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice
1772-1773
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches
1780
Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy
1775
Gold watch by Raymont
1772
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Brass casting, roughly cylindrical, three sinkings in surface
1782
Zinc discs, painted one side white with broad red line across the centre
1772-1773
Three curved rectangular form brass castings
1782
Sextant by Jesse Ramsden
circa 1772
Arm for dividing apparatus built by James Watt
1772-1774
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance
1770-1775
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924