Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
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
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
English wooden doll
circa 1780
Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon
1783
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 minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1784
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge
1785
'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter
1780
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Mrs. Sage
1785
Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches
1780
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Model of a Thames Wherry
1781
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 Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne
1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)
Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle
1784
'Military Surgical Instruments', published Vienna, Austria, 1782
1782
Universal microscope with case and lid
1782
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
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
Roman stone water main
30
Morse Code Signal Lamp
1785
Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914
Circular instrument dividing engine
1778