Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

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

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

Phrenological head

1821

Half-penny coin

1806

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

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Transverse folding spectacles

1790-1830

White boat shaped infant's feeding bottle

1801-1830

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

1720-1770

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

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800