Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

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

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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)

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

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

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

1785-1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Engraving Carte de la Rade e Cherbourg levée en l'année 1787

1787

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

Richard Arkwright

1790

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