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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1800

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1791

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

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

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London

1807

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