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

1785-1790

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Horological gravers with triangular profile

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological gravers

1850-1900

horological graver

1850-1900

horological rubber

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

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

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