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Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

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

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

1778

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

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

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Half-penny coin

1799

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

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

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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