Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Babbage, Charles
1791 - 1871
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Phipps, James
1788 - 1853
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Richard Arkwright
1790
Chadwick, Sir Edwin
1800 - 1890
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
W D and H O Wills Limited
1786 - 1901
Walker, John
1781 - 1859
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
Divers Projets
1798
Two Guillotine blades and plinth
1790-1794
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Toothbrush set
1791-1792
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Mrs. Sage
1785
Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon
1783
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Stephenson, George
1781 - 1848
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
A and F Pears Limited
1789
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797
1797
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Jennens and Company Limited
1800