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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Divers Projets

1798

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

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Half-penny coin

1799

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Richard Arkwright

1790

Mrs. Sage

1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

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)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Portion of stoothing wall (soundproof) of plaster and Norfolk reeds (1880)

1800

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Trade card for John Field, Optical, Mathematical & Philosophical Instrument Maker, London

1791-1793

John Wilkinson, Iron Master, Token

1787-1793

Halfpenny token

1793

Token issued by John Wilkinson

1791

Token. Copper; 29mm diameter

1790

Anglesey halfpenny, token, 1791

1791

Token, Anglesey halfpenny, Wales, 1788

1788

Token, Liverpool Halfpenny, England, 1795

1795

Token issued by John Wilkinson

1787

London and Brighton halfpenny

1795

Token, Cornish Halfpenny, England, 1791

1791