Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

horological gravers

1850-1900

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

horological file

1850-1900

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

horological rubber

1850-1900

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

1752

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

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

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

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

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Barnard Tompion clock

1708