Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Expedition Crane

1764

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

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

1705-1737

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

1770

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of cylinder with separate condenser, formerly described as the "original" model.

Watt's second separate condenser, 1765.

1765

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Eman. Swedenborg. Anno aetatis J.F. Martin Sculps. Holmiae

1772

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Bronze medal to commemorate the opening of a school for the poor

1772

Medal, silver, commemorating Jo. Jac. Belleteste

1763

Bronze medal possibly commemorating hospital

1763