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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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Four-part plaster leg

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould

1790-1819

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1784

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

Half-penny coin

1799

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

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807