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

1770

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

Cutter, Alert

1755

Demainbray's Archimedean screw

1752

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

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

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1767

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Demainbray's convex mirror

1752

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784