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Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

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

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Tin glazed earthenware albarello made for the Franciscans

1601-1750

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

George III's pendulum

1762

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777