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

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

1705-1737

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

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

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

1767

Watch with double dial

1760

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Expedition Crane

1764

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

1758-1769

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Eight ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized hollow fabrications

1758-1773

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

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