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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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 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

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Mrs. Sage

1785

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Extending spectacles and case

1790-1793

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle

1784

Irish Linen Industry

1791

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

John Wilkinson, Iron Master, Token

1787-1793

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Friar Bacon

1786

Commemorative Halfpenny Token, Isaac Newton

1793

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793