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

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

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

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

'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

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Richard Arkwright

1790