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

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1701-1750

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1778

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Cutter, Alert

1755

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725