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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Watch incorporated into a ring

1785-1795

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

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

1705-1737

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

1775-1794

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Table clock by Johnson

1775-1785

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance

1770-1775

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy

1775

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Chronometer movement by John Arnold

1775

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

1790

Model of a 28 gun frigate

1770-1780

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait engraving of John Napier of Merchiston, 1780-1789

1780-1789

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

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

1772

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793

Engraving: Project d'une Travee en Fer de 300 pieds d'ouverture

1783

Silver medal to commemorate a storm off the Dutch coast

1775

General Cl Martin

1780-1789

Engraving, Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon

1784

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Trade token

1791