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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

circa 1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Half-penny coin

1799

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

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

1801

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1801

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Small squat bronze mortar

1801-1800

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

"Nickel Daye Eye Protectors" (c.1800)

1800

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

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Model of a machine for fulling cloth

1800