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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1785

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

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

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Mrs. Sage

1785

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, 1784

1784

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

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

1784

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Friar Bacon

1786

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

1782-1784

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Engraving: Project d'une Travee en Fer de 300 pieds d'ouverture

1783

Medal commemorating 50th anniversary of Joseph Priestley

1783

Engraving, Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon

1784

Bronze medal commemorating King Charles III of Spain

1783