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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

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

circa 1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

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

1797-1804

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Richard Arkwright

1790

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

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

1705-1737

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

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

circa 1795

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805