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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Token. Copper; 29mm diameter

1790

Token, Anglesey halfpenny, Wales, 1788

1788

Token issued by John Wilkinson

1787

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

The Flying Ship

1786

Joseph Priestley

1788

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

Silver medal commemorating the Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786

Du Globe Aerostatique

1785

Token issued by John Wilkinson, 18th century Ironmaster

1788

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Mezzotint. Portrait of James Hutton (1715-1795)

1786

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Mr. Biggins and Mrs. Sage

1785

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

A view of the mouth of a coal pit...

1788

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

The Three Favorite Aerial Travellers

1785

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Friar Bacon

1786

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.

1786