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

1784

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1780

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

1785

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

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

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

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

1778

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 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

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1784

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Mrs. Sage

1785

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

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

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

1784

Universal microscope with case and lid

1782

Two brass automatic lancet

1781

De Luc whalebone hygrometer by Hausmann, 1781.

1781

Air balloon as it ascended with Mr. Lunardi from the Artillery Ground

1784

Engraving: Project d'une Travee en Fer de 300 pieds d'ouverture

1783

Engraving, Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon

1784

Portrait. J.R. Perronet. Engraving 1782

1782

Original drawing for the engraving by S.C. Miger of Charles

1783

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786