Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Tobacco jar carved in the form of human skull and snake

1701-1800

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Frame saw

1700-1800

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a harp, France, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

1701-1800

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

1697

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

1720-1800

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

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

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

King George III's friction machine

1762

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Pill tile with four short legs

1701-1800