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

1770

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Edmund Culpeper

1720

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762