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

1790

Gold and enamel watch by Andrews

1785-1795

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Weights and measures

1805

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

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

circa 1800

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Watch incorporated into a ring

1785-1795

Bracelet watch by Broillal

1795-1805

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Orrery clock with a glass celestial globe

1795-1805

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

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

1784

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Half-penny coin

1799

Richard Arkwright

1790

Half-penny coin

1806

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

circa 1795

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805