Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
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
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Deck watch by John Arnold and Son
1790
Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips
1790
Silver watch by Brockbanks
1790
Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts
1790
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
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
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1788
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
Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge
1785
Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks
1787
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Richard Arkwright
1790
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Mrs. Sage
1785
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
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)
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Ethereal Match or Philosophic Taper
1790
Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933
1900-1933
Model of submersible 'Turtle'
1976; 1776
Votive plaque with right ear in relief
400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936