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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

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

1785-1790

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Mrs. Sage

1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Token. Copper; 29mm diameter

1790

Token, Anglesey halfpenny, Wales, 1788

1788

Token issued by John Wilkinson

1787

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

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

1783

Engraved plate from the European Magazine

1783

The Flying Ship

1786

Joseph Priestley

1788

Engraving, Ascent of Mr. Lunardi's celebrated air balloon

1784

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

Silver medal commemorating the Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786

Aerostation Out At Elbows, or the Itinerant Aeronaut

1784-1790

Du Globe Aerostatique

1785

Token issued by John Wilkinson, 18th century Ironmaster

1788

La Caisse des Balons ou les Commis Effrayes

1783

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

The Aerostatick Stage Balloon

1783

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

M Charles

1784

One line engraving: Ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1784