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

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

1770

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

George III's pendulum

1762

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1776-1780

Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin, Italy, 1774-1800

1774-1800

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1990-95

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Richard Arkwright

1790

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1784

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

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

1776-1780

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

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

1705-1737

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Divers Projets

1798

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

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

1785-1790

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780

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

1580-1588; 1930

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

1776-1780