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Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

1752

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

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

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770