Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

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

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788