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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1797-1804

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

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

1784

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

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1801

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

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

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

1783

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792