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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

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

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

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

1797-1804

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

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806