Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Half-penny coin
1806
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Divers Projets
1798
Reproduction in wood. No 127
1808
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black
1809
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'
1808
Half-penny coin
1799
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810
1795-1810
Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air
1802
Weights and measures
1805
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Cuff-type compound microscope
1790-1810
Porcelain eyebath
1775-1785
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Five wooden molecular model balls
circa 1810
Oval snuff box, England, 1807
1807
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Half-penny coin
1806