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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

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

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

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 Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

1778

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796