Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

circa 1800

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

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

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

1778

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

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

1784

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

1785-1790

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783