Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Napier's Bones

1690

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Robert Hooke type microscope and accessory

1671-1700

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Ivory dildo, complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation, with cloth bag

1701-1800

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

1770

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Dental key

1725-1780

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Petit type tourniquet

1701-1800

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923