Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Half-penny coin
1806
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
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803
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
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'
1808
Half-penny coin
1799
Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air
1802
Weights and measures
1805
Straight spectacles
1796-1797
Transverse folding spectacles
1796-1798
Oval snuff box, England, 1807
1807
Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black
1809
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.
circa 1805
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
circa 1800
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Reproduction in wood. No 127
1808
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Half-penny coin
1806
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
Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.
1801
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
Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801
1801
Toothbrush set
1791-1792
Model, press for cutting out coin blanks
circa 1808