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Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

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

1794

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

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

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

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

1790

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1705-1737

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

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

circa 1795

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Ethereal Match or Philosophic Taper

1790

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Irish Linen Industry

1791

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

Extending spectacles and case

1790-1793

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Commemorative Halfpenny Token, Isaac Newton

1793

Bronze trade token

1791

Silver medal commemorating the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Germany, 1793

1793

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Silver medal

1789