Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

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

1752

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Socrates

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

George III's pendulum

1762

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

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

1808

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

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808