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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

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

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

1778

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

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

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Mrs. Sage

1785

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 minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

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

Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle

1784

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and hallmarked silver pans in rectangular wooden case

1779-1782

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)

Universal microscope with case and lid

1782

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

Morse Code Signal Lamp

1785

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Steel urethrotome

1801-1700