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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Half-penny coin

1799

Compass

1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Half-penny coin

1806

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815