Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Laennec's stethoscope
1815-1825
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son
1795
Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model
1744-1774
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Phrenological head
1821
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
‘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
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Demainbray's wharf jib crane model
1729-1753
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser
1765-1806
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures
1815
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
King George III's friction machine
1762
Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810
1795-1810
George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision
1762
Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar
1761
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's tidal demonstration model
1762
King George III's central forces machine
1762
George III's pendulum
1762
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange
1808
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall
1786
Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market
1800
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold
1776
Spring-detent escapement watch in a gold case by Reid & Co. London
1807
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold
1770-1780
Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold
1821