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

1705-1737

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's model crriage body

1762

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Eight ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Wax male anatomical figure

1750-1774

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

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Cutter, Alert

1755

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

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

1753-1754

Set of lithotomy instruments in fishskin case

1771-1780

Theorbo, a stringed musical instrument

1762

Ear trumpet

1752

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

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

1780

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Coin Scale

1770-1780

Wooden medicine chest

1750-1770

Roman stone water main

30

Milby Cut bridge girder, 1769

1769

Ticket medal

1776

Bronze medal to commemorate F.H.W. Martini (1729-1778)

1777