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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1785-1790

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Half-penny coin

1799

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

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

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

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

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

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

Compass

1800

Brass cross-head and compass, 1800

1800

Pocket watch in silver case

hallmarked 1795

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

1800

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Ellwood of Whitehaven phosphor

circa 1795

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

1791-1793

John Wilkinson, Iron Master, Token

1787-1793

Halfpenny token

1793

London and Middlesex halfpenny

1789-1800