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Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1787

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Mrs. Sage

1785

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

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Watch incorporated into a ring

1785-1795

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

Pirn Winder

1780-1790

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Companion / John Curr of Sheffield

1795

Extending spectacles and case

1790-1793

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

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

1784

Irish Linen Industry

1791

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

'Military Surgical Instruments', published Vienna, Austria, 1782

1782

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

'A Letter to Lord Viscount Howe....', Printed from Logotypes, 1787

1787

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Steel urethrotome

1801-1700

Tobacco resuscitator kit, England, 1785

1785

Two bladed fleam

1781

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

1782-1784

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

gold token redeemable as one halfpenny by John Stride of Emsworth

1795