Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

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

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

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

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760