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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

1770

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

George III's pendulum

1762

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wax male anatomical figure

1750-1774

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

1776-1780

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

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

1705-1737

Rose engine lathe

circa 1740

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

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

1776-1780

John Harrison, oil painting

1767

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

George III's compound engine

1762

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979