Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

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

1770

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

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

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Expedition Crane

1764

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

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

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

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

1778

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Cutter, Alert

1755

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1784

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1780

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Quarter-repeating watch by George Graham

1745

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

1740-1749

Small lantern clock with alarm signed George Graham

1750-1760

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

1745-1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769