Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
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
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
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
Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud
1788
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1784
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
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
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Richard Arkwright
1790
Mrs. Sage
1785
Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787
1783-1787
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1788
Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton
1791
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge
1785
Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks
1787
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.
1783; 1914
Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier
1786
Jean Pierre Blanchard
1785
Portrait. J.Buxton. Mezzotint 1781
1781
Improved Withering Botanic microscope
1790