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

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 turquoise disc

1745-1755

horological gravers

1850-1900

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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

1697

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

horological file

1850-1900

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

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

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

horological rubber

1850-1900

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

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

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

1785-1790

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

horological gravers

1850-1900

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590