Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

John Bennet

1740

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Watch movement with experimental escapement

1736-1740

Compass microscope for opaque objects

1740

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Coloured engraving of Prior Park

1750

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Simple aquatic microscope

1745

Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer

1737-1738

Chest microscope

1750

Pamphlet for pocket microscope by James Mann and James Ayscough

1743

The Creation

1737

Analemmatic sundial for latitude 52[o]

1732

Engraving, A First View of Practical Chymistry

1747

The Chymist

1750

Microscope (c.1740)

1740

Trade Bill Le Sr. Magny

1750

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Ioannes Guilielmus Weinmannus

1737

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Universal double microscope (body) (c.1746)

1746

Portrait. G.B. Beccaria. Professor of Physics

1748

'Le Chirurgien de Campagne', engraving by Thomas Major, France, 1747

1747

Portrait. Sir Samuel Garth. Engraving 1748

1748

The Company of Undertakers

1736

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Engraving: plans of London Bridge

1746

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Engraving: Portrait of William Harvey MD (1578-1657)/Houbraken

1739

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Portrait of Colin MacLaurin

1740-1749

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE