Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Camera Obscura
1701-1752
Longcase clock by James and John Harrison
1728
Orrery by Thomas Wright
1735-1745
Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine
1717-1725
Demainbray's Newcomen engine model
1720
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Compound microscope
1701-1723
Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison
1726-1728
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
George III's philosophical table
1761-1762
Great spinning wheel
c.1750
Majolica pharmacy jar
1730-1750
Turret clock movement by William Smith
1750
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Barnard Tompion clock
1708
Demainbray's polemoscope
1701-1752
Eight-day longcase clock by Justin Vulliamy
1745-1755
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler
1715-1725
Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English
1720-1770
Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck
1715-1725
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724
1724
George III's pendulum
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole
1750-1766
Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son
1755-1765
Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham
1711
Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac
1725-1755
Demainbray's compound microscope
1745
Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730
1701-1730
Demainbray's scioptric ball
1745-1755
Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge
1755
Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)
1745-1755
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
George III's compound engine
1762
Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare
1710
Clay tobacco pipe
1730-1770
King George III's friction machine
1762
Eight-day longcase clock by George Graham
1750
George III's double-barrelled air pump
1761
Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte
1740-1760
Drug jar for cinchona bark
1701-1730
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Demainbray's model of a camera obscura
1752