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

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Mrs. Sage

1785

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

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

1705-1737

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)

1786

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

M. Charles and M. Robert leaving the Tuilleries by balloon

1783

Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.

1786

The Aerostatic Globe

1783

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

One ticket. Entry ticket

1784

One paper "Pattern for a Lady's pocket"

1784

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Ascent of the 19th September 1783, at Versailles

1783

Water-colour, oval, contemporary. Montgolfier at Annonay

1783

Aerostat le Marseillois

1784

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000