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

George III's pendulum

1762

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

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

1636

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

horological rubber

1850-1900

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

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

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

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

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

A Treatise named Lucarsolace

horological gravers

1850-1900

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

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

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Spiral slide-rule

1663