Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
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
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
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787
1787
Mrs. Sage
1785
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 minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1784
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, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Richard Arkwright
1790
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Mercury stick barometer by Baptist Ronchetti
circa 1790; circa 1790
Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'
1850-1899
Chevalier Humguffier and the Marquis de Gull; excursion to the Moon in their new Aerial vehicle
1784
View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser
1789
Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus
1774; 1923
Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE
2000-100 BCE
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.
3000-2500 BCE