Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1770

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

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

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch with double dial

1760

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham

1750-1760

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Great spinning wheel

c.1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761