Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

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

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1752

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

1750-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Cutter, Alert

1755

Tinder pistol

1750-1800

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

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

George III's pendulum

1762

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

1778

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784