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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

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

1770

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

1752

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Watch with double dial

1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

George III's glass sphere

1761

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

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 inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

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

1705-1737

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761