Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.
1780-1850
Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches
1801-1830
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1783-1800
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology
1831
Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model
1744-1774
Huskisson Memorial
1831
Britannia statue
1849
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
Rocket locomotive
1829
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1801
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832
1832
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
circa 1750
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795
Divers Projets
1798
Etching of an electrically powered garden
1755
Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels
1735-1752
Demainbray's turquoise disc
1745-1755
Demainbray's yellow disc
1745-1755
London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch
1842
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1805
'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1800
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret
1812
Deck watch by Breguet et Fils
1830
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
circa 1808
Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship
1840
Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin
1785-1795
Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg
1771-1800
Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion
1750-1800
Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb
1821-1850