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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1752

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Cutter, Alert

1755

Section of track

1745-1755

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Cutter, Alert

1755

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Pair of coloured glass discs, 1750.

1745-1755

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Ear trumpet

1752

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753