Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's wire cage

1700-1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

George III's model crriage body

1762

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Surveyor's Level by Joseph Jackson

1735-60

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Silver horizontal pocket sundial by N. Bion

1700-1725

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Table clock by Johnson

1775-1785

Verge watch by Peter Debaufre with later modification by Alexander Cumming, London

1700-1815

Pair cased watch by Anna Adamson

1685

Gold half-quarter repeating watch by Simon Decharmes

1700-1725

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance

1770-1775

Pair-cased watch by Gray & Vulliamy

1740-1760

Gold pair cased repeater watch by William Webster

1700-1725

Skeletonised watch movement by Peter Amyot

1750-1775

Watch movement with Stogten repeating work by Langley Bradley

1700-1725

Watch with a later case and dial by Edward East

1680

Watch movement with crystal balance-cock by Thomas Cartwright

1700-1725

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1801-1819

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold watch with quarter repeating by Brounker Watts

1700-1725

Silver pair-cased watch by Benjamin Bell

1690

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Watch in an enamel case by Herbeau

1775-1800

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

1701-1708

Table clock with quarter chiming by William Speakman

1690-1700