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

1770

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Napier's Bones

1690

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Silver star-shaped verge watch by David Ramsay

1625

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Gunter quadrant

1640

Compound microscope

1700

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

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

1640

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

1640

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

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Edmund Culpeper

1720

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752