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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1778

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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

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

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

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

Gold and enamel pair cased watch by Justin Vulliamy

1775

Chronometer movement by John Arnold

1775

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

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

1776-1780

Wax male anatomical figure

1776-1780

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Regulator clock made by Vulliamy for King George III

1780

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Apothecary's balance

1778-1780

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Circular instrument dividing engine

1778

Remains of a Cornish pumping engine, 'Old Bess', built by James Watt, 1777.

1777

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

HMS Experiment

1775

HMS Experiment

1775

HMS Ambuscade

1775