Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Wax male anatomical figure

1750-1774

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

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

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

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

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

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

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

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1778

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Cutter, Alert

1755