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Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

model horsebox

1975-1985

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

1968-1971

Folding scissors

1801-1900

Wooden carpenter's brace

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

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

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Eclipse

1841

Tinder pistol in egg-shaped

1700-1850

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Atlantic Telegraph Cable Souvenir, 1873

1873-1920

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

1820-1880

Brass padlock

1831-1920

Amulet in the shape of a scorpion

1800-1920

Cornish piskie amuletic pendant

1871-1930

Apothecary's spoon