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Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

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

circa 1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1785-1790

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

1794

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Compass

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

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

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

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

Half-penny coin

1799

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

circa 1795

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Mrs. Sage

1785

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

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791