Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

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

1705-1737

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by George Tyler

1715-1725

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Georgian Cupboard

1725-1750

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Grey

1730

General Roy's standard scale by Jonathan Sisson, 1742

1742

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Book, by Colin Maclaurin. An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

1750

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

'The Company of Undertakers' print

1736

Drawing of Grand Orrery by Thomas Wright and engraving of 'The Grand Orrery' by John Rowley

1715-1728

Early Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Model of Newsham's pump piston

1721

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Bristol ruby coach glass with ribbed stem

circa 1750

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Ioannes Guilielmus Weinmannus

1737

John Hadley

1728

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

'Le Chirurgien de Campagne', engraving by Thomas Major, France, 1747

1747

Cast bronze medal commemorating Robert Barker

1744