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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

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

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

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

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

1787

Roman stone water main

30

Medal, silvered, Hippocrates

1789

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Silver medal commemorating the Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Precision Balance, in mahogany and glass case

1788

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

1786

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1789

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1789

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' Guinea coin of George III

1790

Token - JOHN WILKINSON IRON MASTER

1788

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Joseph Priestley

1788

Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.

1786

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

One ticket. Entry ticket

1784