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Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

George III's pendulum

1762

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

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

1778

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Charcoal-burning portable ornamental box foot warmer

1750-1850

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Socrates

1790-1819

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

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

1701-1800

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Plaster bust

1790-1819

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757