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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

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

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

1778

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Socrates

1790-1819

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Plaster mould

1790-1819

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

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

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

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

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

1808

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

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

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

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman

1790-1820

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817