Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

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

1705-1737

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold

1770

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1767

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1767

Gold pocket watch and chain, with winding key and case, possibly owned by James Symes

1768

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Oil paintings

1769

Oil paintings

1773

Oil paintings

1774

Reflecting telescope with trolly stand, 1767-1768

1767-1768

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Eman. Swedenborg. Anno aetatis J.F. Martin Sculps. Holmiae

1772

Navigator's Gunter scale in boxwood 24" long

circa 1775

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Print, line engraving. WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

1777

Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast

1775

The Farrier's Shop

1771

Silver(?) medal, possibly commemorates the ending

1776

Bronze medal to commemorate the opening of a school for the poor

1772

Bronze medal with head of Catherine II on obverse

1776

Bronze medal commemorating the coronation of King Louis XVI in 1775

1775

One grano

1776

One cinquina bronze coin associated with Emmanuel de Rohan

1776

1/2 Cinquina bronze coin

1777

Silver medal to commemorate the Medical Society of London

1773

Silver medal

1771

Silver medal

1771

Bronze medal of the herbarium of Milan and Pavia

1775

Bronze ticket medal

1776-1777

Silver medal commemorating Maria Theresa's restoration to health

1767

Brass medal

1775

Silver medal commemorating restoration from smallpox

1768

Bronze medal

1774

Copper medal

1775