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

1770

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

1705-1737

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

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

Gold repoussé watch depicting the Choice of Hercules, by John Ellicott

1767

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Expedition Crane

1764

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

John Harrison, oil painting

1767

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Albarello vase

1762

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Model experimental cart

1762

Brass plate for projectile experiment

1762