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

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

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

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1778

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708