Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Cutter, Alert

1755

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

1784

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

King George III's friction machine

1762

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 tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794