Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

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

1780

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

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

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

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

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

1705-1737

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Mrs. Sage

1785

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Medal, silver, octagonal

1779

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Portrait. J.Buxton. Mezzotint 1781

1781

The First Ascent of a Hydrogen Balloon from the Tuillerie

1783

Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1778

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Guinea coin of George III

1779

Petit-Ecu of Three Livres coin of Louis XVI (France)

1780

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Onza de Oro or Eight Scudos coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1778

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

M. Charles and M. Robert leaving the Tuilleries by balloon

1783

View of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1783

Print, coloured. Experience du globe aerostatique de M.M. Charles et Robert au Jardin des Thuilleries

1783

The Aerostatic Globe

1783

Print, plain. The air balloon as it ascended with Mr. Lunardi from the Artillery ground

1784

Print, coloured. Erste Luftreise des Marquis d'Arlandes und Pilatre du Rozier

1783

The blacksmith and knifegrinder, with ... Wortley's pavilion etc. in Hyde Park

1780

Engraving, Ascent of Mr. Lunardi's celebrated air balloon

1784

La Caisse des Balons ou les Commis Effrayes

1783

Engraving : La Melancholie

1780