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Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

Medal, silver, commemorating some operation for the King by Johann Chr. Ant. Theden

1787

Silver medal commemorating surgeon

1787

Medal commemorating Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1786

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)

1786

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1789

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1789

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' Guinea coin of George III

1790

Token - JOHN WILKINSON IRON MASTER

1788

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Wheel cutting machine with milling cutter

1789

Print: etching

1787

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Engraving, Portrait of John Locke Esq.

1786

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786