Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

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

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

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

1787

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

1791

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Compass

1800

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Companion / John Curr of Sheffield

1795

Extending spectacles and case

1790-1793

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Irish Linen Industry

1791

View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

1789

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE