Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

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

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

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

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

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

1785-1790

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Expedition Crane

1764

Cutter, Alert

1755

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 turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755