Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son
1795
Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model
1744-1774
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
Edmund Culpeper
1720
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
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
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's tidal demonstration model
1762
King George III's central forces machine
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall
1786
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Deck watch by John Arnold and Son
1790
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son
1796
Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940
1794
Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte
1740-1760
Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott
1767
Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck
1715-1725
Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham
1745
Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler
1715-1725
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton
1702
Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge
1755
Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin
1739
Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham
1750-1760