Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Porcelain eyebath

1775-1785

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

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

1784

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

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

1780

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

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

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

1771

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

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

1705-1737

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Table clock by Johnson

1775-1785

Gold watch by Raymont

1772

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

1775-1785

Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy

1775

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785