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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

circa 1800

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

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

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

English wooden doll

circa 1780

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1787

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

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