Leber-pattern dental forceps
1770-1800
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
Pair of bar magnets in box
1750-1795
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Creamware plate
1771-1800
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
Saw used by Samuel Crompton
1750-1770
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
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
Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley
1752
Demainbray's convex lens
1750
Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion
1750-1800
Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg
1771-1800
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
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
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
George III's pendulum
1762
Glass bell jar with a brass collar
1761
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
George III's cycloidal pendulum
1762
George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision
1762
Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar
1761
King George III's central forces machine
1762
Half-penny coin
1806
Small white cup in soft paste porcelain
1748-1763
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Demainbray's cometarium
1750-1760
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"
1757
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
George III's tidal demonstration model
1762
Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson
1752
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
King George III's friction machine
1762
Demainbray's Archimedean screw
1752
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802