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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

1778

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1780

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

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

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)

Regulator clock made by Vulliamy for King George III

1780

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

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