Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

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

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Expedition Crane

1764

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Cutter, Alert

1755

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1776-1780

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

1725-1775

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

1725-1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1776-1780

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773