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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

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

1785

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

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

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

1785-1790

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Half-penny coin

1799

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

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

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Small squat bronze mortar

1801-1800