Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Compound microscope

1700

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

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 turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762