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

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Expedition Crane

1764

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Watch with double dial

1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

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

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

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

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

1697

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