Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

Creamware plate

1771-1800

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1784

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

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

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Half-penny coin

1799

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804