Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Napier's Bones

1690

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795