Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

George III's pendulum

1762

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

King George III's central forces machine

1762

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

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Steel bradawl with turned hickory handle, brass ferrule and securing nut

1758-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Four-part plaster leg

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould

1790-1819

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

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

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4