Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

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

1784

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Expedition Crane

1764

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

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

1705-1737

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Textile printing block, rectangular

1760-1775 probable date

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of Hooke's universal joint

1760