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Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

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

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1788

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

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

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

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

1790

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Engraving: Project d'une Travee en Fer de 300 pieds d'ouverture

1783

Engraving, Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon

1784

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Bronze medal commemorating King Charles III of Spain

1783

Portrait. J.R. Perronet. Engraving 1782

1782

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Wheel cutting machine with milling cutter

1789

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Sun-dial, analemmatic, inscribed

1784

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Two washers

15/7/27

Mezzotint, `The Lamplighter'

1790