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horological rubber

1850-1900

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

A Treatise named Lucarsolace

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Edmund Culpeper

1720

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695