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Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

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

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

Divers Projets

1798

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1791

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Compass

1800

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

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

1790

Gold and enamel watch by Andrews

1785-1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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)

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96