Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Equinoctial ring sundial
1719-1791
Compound microscope
1700
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Small white cup in soft paste porcelain
1748-1763
Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac
1725-1755
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Drug jar for cinchona bark
1701-1730
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications
1758-1773
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins
1758-1769
Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins
1758-1769
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Expedition Crane
1764
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Half-penny coin
1799
Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750
1701-1750
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742
1742
Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750
1701-1750
Porcelain eyebath
1775-1785
Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.
1740-1753
Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English
1720-1770
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780