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

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

‘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

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

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

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

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Expedition Crane

1764

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

1778

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1785-1790

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Flintlock pistol belonging to John Roger Arnold

1770-1780

Watch with double dial

1760