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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1770

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham

1711

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

1700-1725

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham

1750-1760

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Expedition Crane

1764

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

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

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

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 Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.