Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

1776

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Octagonal wooden telescope with slot down one side and moveable eyepice

1772-1773

Mrs. Sage

1785

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Richard Arkwright

1790

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

1705-1737

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Table clock by Johnson

1775-1785

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Ethereal Match or Philosophic Taper

1790

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle

1784

Universal microscope with case and lid

1782

Two brass automatic lancet

1781

De Luc whalebone hygrometer by Hausmann, 1781.

1781

Air balloon as it ascended with Mr. Lunardi from the Artillery Ground

1784

Folding coin scale for weighing guineas and half-guineas

1774

Portrait engraving of John Napier of Merchiston, 1780-1789

1780-1789

Mr Thomas Mudge

1772

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

1783

General Cl Martin

1780-1789

Engraving, Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon

1784

John Whitehurst F.R.S.

1788

Portrait. J.R. Perronet. Engraving 1782

1782

Original drawing for the engraving by S.C. Miger of Charles

1783

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Portrait. J.Buxton. Mezzotint 1781

1781

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

The First Ascent of a Hydrogen Balloon from the Tuillerie

1783

Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)

1786

Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1778

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Piastre coin of Carlos III (Spain)

1773

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

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