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
Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin
1762
Divers Projets
1798
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
George III's weighted cylinder
1762
Unweighted cylinder in frame
1762
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
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
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
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
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott
1767
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips
1790
Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud
1767
Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son
1795
Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son
1795
Silver watch by Brockbanks
1790
Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin
1785-1795
Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery
1792
Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts
1790
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case
1760-1770
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
Half-penny coin
1799
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782