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

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

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

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798