Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

Spirit level

1790-1819

Box containing minerals and mixing sticks

1790-1819

Piece of wood ,

1790-1819

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Socrates

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

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

1808

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

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

1784

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

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

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

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

1791