Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Watch with double dial

1760

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Quarter-repeating watch by Thomas Mudge

1755

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cutter, Alert

1755

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Apparatus for filling barometer tube

1761

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Roman stone water main

30

Wooden backstaff.

1759

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Steel urethrotome

1801-1700

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Brass sector by George Adams, 1756-1760, with fishskin case

1756-1760

Surveyor's compass used by James Watt

circa 1760

Scarificator with sixteen lancets

1756

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Ear trumpet

1752