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Diorama showing Torricelli's barometer experiment

Diorama showing Torricelli's barometer experiment

Steel horseshoe magnet, mid 18th century

Steel horseshoe magnet, mid 18th century

1750-1780
Case of drawing instruments

Case of drawing instruments

Aeolipile (c. 1680-1700)

Aeolipile (c. 1680-1700)

1680-1700
Bronze Mortar (dated 1542)

Bronze Mortar (dated 1542)

1542
Two Cartesian Divers

Two Cartesian Divers

Case of drawing instruments

Case of drawing instruments

Glass Model (c. 1840-50)

Glass Model (c. 1840-50)

1840-1850
Copper Bottle (c. 1790)

Copper Bottle (c. 1790)

1790
Glass Trough (c. 1730)

Glass Trough (c. 1730)

1730
Diorama illustrating Otto von Guericke's field demonstration of the Magdeburg hemispheres

Diorama illustrating Otto von Guericke's field demonstration of the Magdeburg hemispheres

Glass Trough (c. 1730) similar to M.6 (1993-1317) but without foot

Glass Trough (c. 1730) similar to M.6 (1993-1317) but without foot

1730
Brass Magdeburg hemisphere with loop at top

Brass Magdeburg hemisphere with loop at top

Brass Magdeburg hemisphere with loop on top and turning mechanism

Brass Magdeburg hemisphere with loop on top and turning mechanism

Case of drawing instruments

Case of drawing instruments

Glass Model (c. 1840-50), of "Hero's Fountain"

Glass Model (c. 1840-50), of "Hero's Fountain"

1840-1850
Diorama showing Sir Isaac Newton's pioneer optical experiments on the colours produced by glass prisms, carried out in a room at Trinity College, Cambridge

Diorama Showing Newton's Optical Experiments on the Colours Produced by Glass Prisms

Windmill demonstration apparatus, 19th century

Windmill demonstration apparatus, 19th century

An Atwood's apparatus by W and S Jones, London after 1801

An Atwood's apparatus by W and S Jones

1801-
Two brass Magdeburg hemispheres

Two brass Magdeburg hemispheres

Model, approximately one-third size, showing Rumford's experiment of 1798, in which he investigated the production of heat when a cannon is bored

Model, approximately one-third size

Large Bell-shaped glass vessel (c. 1730-40), to demonstrate the Diving Bell. At the top is a brass tap to control air pressure, round the middle is a brass band with hooks from which are suspended 13 lead balls to regulate the weight [see Desaguliers, Experimental Philosophy, 1744, p.212, pl.XX, fig.2]

Large Bell-shaped glass vessel (c. 1730-40)

1730-1740