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Place
Material
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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

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

1776-1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries 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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

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

1705-1737

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy

1775

Chronometer movement by John Arnold

1775

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

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

1776-1780

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Folding coin scale for weighing guineas and half-guineas

1774

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1778

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1773

Guinea coin of George III

1779

Guinea coin of George III

1773

Guinea coin of George III

1776

Guinea coin of George III

1774

Guinea coin of George III

1775

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Petit-Ecu of Three Livres coin of Louis XVI (France)

1780

Guinea coin of George III

1777

Four Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1774

Two Ducats coin of Maria Theresa of Hungary

1773

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Onza de Oro or Eight Scudos coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1778

Two Denari coin of Victor Amadeus II (King of Sardinia)

1774

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1772