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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

horological gravers

1850-1900

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

horological file

1850-1900

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

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

1785-1790

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

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

1784

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1636

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752