Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1752

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

King George III's friction machine

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750