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
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Divers Projets
1798
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
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)
Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
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
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Electrical chimes by George Adams
1781-1790
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark
1777-1785
Porcelain eyebath
1775-1785
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780
1776-1780
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
Half-penny coin
1799
Half-penny coin
1799
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins
1775-1794
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Beam compass by George Adams
1775-1795
Marine barometer by R.B. Bate
mid-1800s
Mezzotint portrait of John Bird
1776
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
English wooden doll
circa 1780
Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs
1778-1780
Richard Arkwright
1790