Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Turret clock movement by William Smith

1750

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

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

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Cutter, Alert

1755

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

1751

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763