Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1697

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

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

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

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

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755