Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Napier's Bones

1690

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

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

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

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Drug jar for extract of cinchona bark, Lambeth, London, England, 1710-1740

1710-1740

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

1701-1750

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755