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Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

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

circa 1800

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

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

1794

Compass

1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

1794