Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Creamware plate

1771-1800

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 Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

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

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

1720-1800

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750