Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Mezzotint: Portrait of John Arnold
1770
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Wood moulding plane, dated 1771
1771
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Mezzotint portrait of John Bird
1776
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice
1772-1773
Oil paintings
1769
Oil paintings
1773
Oil paintings
1774
Transit telescope
1770
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3
Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.
2500 BCE
Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health
1880-120
Shaving bowl
1767
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Empty wooden case, varnished, inscribed H.L.1772
1772
Steelyard balance for weighing gold coins
1775
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
Solar microscope (dated 1770) signed B.MARTIN INVT ET FECIT LONDINI NO 34
1770
NEMA cryptography machine type T-D
1945-50
Compound microscope by Joseph Brum
1772
Compound microscope signed J. D. V. Fokkenberg Fecit Utrecht 1777
1777
Figure-8 Microscope (c.1770)
1770
Mariner's compass
circa 1775
Polished steel equal-arm balance, 1772-1775
1772-1775
Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination
3000-1500
Coade Stone fragment
1769
copy of a gold cup.
3000-2000 BCE
Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)
2000 BCE
Mr Thomas Mudge
1772
Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast
1775
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
1771
Silver medal
1771
Bronze medal of the herbarium of Milan and Pavia
1775
Bronze ticket medal
1776-1777
Brass medal
1775