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Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Skull saw, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

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

Tire fonds, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Lenticular, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Cutter, Alert

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1785-1790

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Spiral slide-rule

1663

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

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

1697

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761