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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Table clock by Nicholas Vallin

Time Measurement

1598-1603

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

Astronomy

1607-1618

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Astronomy

1603

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Compendium by Elias Allen

Time Measurement

1630-1653

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1650-1725

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

Mathematics

1654

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Demainbray's scioptric ball

King George III

1745-1755

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

Ebony and brass octant.

Astronomy

1777-1810

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

Astronomy

1648-1687

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Simple theodolite

Surveying

1600-1630

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Astronomy

1599

Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell

Mathematics

1593-1610

Model of H.M. Bark 'Endeavour', 1974

Water Transport

1974

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

Mathematics

1623

George III's clockwork bell

King George III

1761

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Cupellation furnace

Metallurgy

1696-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

Time Measurement

1660-1665

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Altitude quadrant

Astronomy

1552