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
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Divers Projets
1798
Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children
1797
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Half-penny coin
1799
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Half-penny coin
1799
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
Richard Arkwright
1790
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
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
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Toothbrush set
1791-1792
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787
1787
Marine barometer by R.B. Bate
mid-1800s
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay
circa 1800
Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797
1797
Mrs. Sage
1785
Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797
1797
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son
1796
Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery
1792
Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1795
Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips
1790
Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son
1795
Gold and enamel watch by Andrews
1785-1795
Lever escapement watch by John Grant
1795
Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son
1795
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792