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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

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

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

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

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

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

circa 1795

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

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

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Pill box, silver, for dispensing one pill at a time

1785-1795

Pocket surgical instrument set

1796

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Medal, silver, commemorating some operation for the King by Johann Chr. Ant. Theden

1787

Silver medal commemorating surgeon

1787

Tin-plated prize medal for medicine and surgery

1788-1794

Silver prize medal from Military Academy of Medicine and Surgery with bust of Emperor Joseph II

1788-1794

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Medal commemorating Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1786

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50