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A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Small musical table clock

1775-1799

Quarter repeating watch by Ellicott, London

1765-1775

Pedometer by Spencer and Perkins

1775-1800

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Gold and enamel watch by Andrews

1785-1795

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

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

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1806

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Weights and measures

1805

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1778

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s