Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Tobacco jar carved in the form of human skull and snake

1701-1800

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Frame saw

1700-1800

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

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

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a harp, France, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

1701-1800

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

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

1785-1790

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

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

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

1720-1800

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762