Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

1702

Napier's Bones

1690

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

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

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

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

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766