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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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1784

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Mrs. Sage

1785

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794