Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

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

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

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

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin, Italy, 1774-1800

1774-1800

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1990-95

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Cutter, Alert

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Richard Arkwright

1790

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785