Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
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
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Lever escapement watch by John Grant
1795
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
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory
1792
Toothbrush set
1791-1792
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
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
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
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
Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son
1795
Richard Arkwright
1790
Two Guillotine blades and plinth
1790-1794
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Orrery planetary model
1789-1795
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794
1794
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Newcomen Atmospheric Engine
1791
Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower
1979-80
Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)
1790
Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)
1793