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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

1778

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

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

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

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

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

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Universal microscope with case and lid

1782

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

1730; 1967

Clarke's improved hydrometer

1792

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Wedgwood & Bentley" and "2"

1780

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Tobacco box

1792

Two bladed fleam

1781

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

1990-95

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793