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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

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

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

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

1812

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

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot

1811-1812

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