Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1770

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

1702

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

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

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762