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

1778

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1776-1780

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

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

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Stop-watch movementwith cylinder escapement

1766

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Medal, silver, commemorating Joseph Philip Dean 1780-1782

1782

Optical cabinet made by B. Martin about 1771

1771

Figure-8 Microscope (c.1770)

1770

Pocket microscope in silver

1770

Silver medal commemorating a terrible flood of 20 and 21st November 1776 but location unknown

1776-1777

Verge watch in case with pendulum balance

1776

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Trade token

1772

Solar microscope (dated 1770) signed B.MARTIN INVT ET FECIT LONDINI NO 34

1770

Copper medal commemorating Thomas Le Vacher de la Feutrie as dean of Paris medical school 1779 to 1780

1780

Compound microscope signed J. D. V. Fokkenberg Fecit Utrecht 1777

1777

Urania Coeli

1781

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Wedgwood & Bentley" and "2"

1780

Dicas hydrometer with weights

1781

Doctor Cullen

1772

Compound microscope by Joseph Brum

1772

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Lever watch in case

1770-1781

Engraving : La Melancholie

1780