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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

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

1778

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Expedition Crane

1764

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

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

1784

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

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

1785-1790

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

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

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

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

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

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

1705-1737