Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

1735-1754.

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

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

1752

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Demainbray's scioptric ball

1745-1755

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Section of track

1745-1755

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Male urinal, Netherlands, 1740-1760

1740-1760

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Surveyor's Level by Joseph Jackson

1735-60

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pair of coloured glass discs, 1750.

1745-1755

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Ear trumpet

1752

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Soap box

1751-1760

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Clay tobacco pipe

1750-1760

5 lancets

1744