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Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Case for William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Demainbray's convex lens

King George III

1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

Wellcome (general)

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Temporary Exhibitions

c.1750

Glass cylinder, containing a tap and slipwire

King George III

c. 1750

Steel Mill used with Flint for Mine Lighting, 1730-1750

Mining & Ore Dressing

1730-1750

Coloured engraving of Prior Park, the seat of Ralph Allen Esq, and the Wagon-Way near Bath

R Wilkinson

1750

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967
Large orrery on pedestal base with with gilded horse head decorations beneath the calendar ring and glazed cover, original maker unknown, enlarged by Thomas Wright, Fleet Street, London, 1733. Inscribed 'All the Machinery of this instrument was made new in 1733 by Tho Wright Instrument maker to His MAJESTY GEORGE II'.

George II's Grand Orrery

King George III

1733

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

Astronomy

1747

Hadley's Gregorian reflecting telescope, c.1740

Astronomy

1740-1744

'Le Chirurgien de Campagne', engraving by Thomas Major, France, 1747

David Teniers

1747

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Pocket Stop Watch in Gold Case by George Graham, 1730-1748

Time Measurement

1730-1748

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

Thomas Hudson

1740-1749

Trade card for James Ayscough, optician, London, England, 1749-1750

.Unattributed

1749-1750
Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Lombe, Derby, England, c. 1732; the remains being: a reel, three spindles with bobbins and flyers and a segment of a circular frame, all half size.

Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced by Sir Thomas Lombe

Textiles Machinery

1732

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

English terrestrial globe with Moon arm, 1731-1747

Astronomy

1731-1747
42-inch standard scale marked with a standard yard, made by Jonathan Sisson and divided in 1742 by John Bird, both based in the Strand, London. The scale was owned by surveyor General William Roy and used by him whilst conducting measurements of a baseline at Hounslow Heath in 1784.

William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

Gregorian reflecting telescope, 1734-1772

Astronomy

1734-1750

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Clay replica of a clay model of sheep's liver

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750

'The Company of Undertakers' print

William Hogarth

1736

HMS Victory

.Unattributed

1744

The Art of Stocking Frame Work Knitting

Art

1750

Compass microscope for opaque objects

Microscopes

1740
Weather compendium combining cistern mercury barometer, alcohol thermometer and thread hygrometer by George Graham, Fleet Street, London, 1739

Weather compendium by George Graham

Meteorology

1739

Excise officer's slide rule by W. Rix, Verie type

Mathematics

1740-1746

Candle douter, for extinguishing candles

Lighting

c. 1750

Alarm watch movement with French verge escapement

Time Measurement

1749

Case for the first Gregorian reflecting telescope

Astronomy

1740-1744
One of eleven early wine bottles, mallet shaped (shape popular c. 1740)

Early wine bottle, about 1740

Glass Technology

1735-1745

Microscope (c.1730), by SCARLETT. Culpeper type, o

Microscopes

1730
Model of a tipping cart. Probably from the collection of Stephen Demainbray.

Model of a tipping cart

King George III

c. 1750

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

Medical Ceramic-ware

1740

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Pocket Watch with Shagreen Outer Case by Thomas Mudge, 1730-1750

Time Measurement

1730-1750

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Oval Concave Mirror (c.1740-50), in sharkskin case

Optics

1740-1750

Scarlett-Culpeper Compound microscope, with access

Microscopes

1735-1745