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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

horological rubber

1850-1900

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

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

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

A Treatise named Lucarsolace

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806