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Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Silver watch by Brockbanks

1790

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud

1788

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

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

1705-1737

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Jean Pierre Blanchard

1785

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

The First Ascent of a Hydrogen Balloon from the Tuillerie

1783

Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)

1786

Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)

1785

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1789

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1788

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1789