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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Tobacco jar carved in the form of human skull and snake

1701-1800

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Frame saw

1700-1800

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1701-1800

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

1701-1800

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Socrates

1790-1819

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Slotting machine

1835

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

1776-1780

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Obstetric forceps

1780-1820

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

1776-1780

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835