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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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

1778

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1784

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Spoon with folding handle

1778

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

1705-1737

Mrs. Sage

1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate F.H.W. Martini (1729-1778)

1777

Circular silver medal

1783

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Medal, silver, commemorating Joseph Philip Dean 1780-1782

1782

Copper medal commemorating Thomas Le Vacher de la Feutrie as dean of Paris medical school 1779 to 1780

1780

Portrait. J.Buxton. Mezzotint 1781

1781

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

1780

De Luc whalebone hygrometer by Hausmann, 1781.

1781

Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1778

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Guinea coin of George III

1779

Guinea coin of George III

1777