Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

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

1797-1804

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

circa 1800

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

1808

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

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

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

Half-penny coin

1799

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

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

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Five wooden molecular model balls

circa 1810

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

1809

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

1808

Model, press for cutting out coin blanks

circa 1808

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Richard Arkwright

1790