Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Phrenological head

1821

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

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)

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

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

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Oval enamelled box, England, 1761-1820

1761-1820

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

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