Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

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

1752

George III's pendulum

1762

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

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

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

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

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

Expedition Crane

1764

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Cutter, Alert

1755

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Section of track

1745-1755

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769