Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Creamware plate

1771-1800

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

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

1797-1804

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

circa 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

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

1778

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

‘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

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Earthenware pill tile

1751-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800