Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1770

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

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

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

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

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

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

1697

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Watch with double dial

1760

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

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

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720