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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

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

1796

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

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

circa 1800

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

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

1797-1804

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

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

Divers Projets

1798

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Compass

1800

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

1780

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Marine chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw

1795-1805

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802