Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
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
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787
1787
Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon
1783
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
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
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
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Richard Arkwright
1790
Mrs. Sage
1785
Universal microscope with case and lid
1782
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3
Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.
2500 BCE
Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health
1880-120
Two bladed fleam
1781
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Silver vinaigrette
1786
Silver vinaigrette
1790
M. Charles and M. Robert leaving the Tuilleries by balloon
1783
Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.
1786
The Aerostatic Globe
1783
Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body
1888-185
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
One ticket. Entry ticket
1784
Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)
1790
Box and weights for money changer's scales
1790
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Dicas hydrometer with weights
1781
Italian albarello vase
1791