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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

circa 1800

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1787

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Clarke's improved hydrometer

1792

Hollow clay tile, from R.A.F. Stanmore Park, 1800

1800

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE