Orrery planetary model
1789-1795
Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company
1794
Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement
1792
Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5
1791
Deck watch by John Arnold and Son
1790
Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940
1794
Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery
1792
Lever escapement watch by John Grant
1795
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
Silver watch by Brockbanks
1790
Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery
1792
Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts
1790
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams
1790
The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory
1792
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Toothbrush set
1791-1792
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton
1791
Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London
1790-1794
Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son
1795
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board
circa 1795
Richard Arkwright
1790
Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt
1794
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Two Guillotine blades and plinth
1790-1794
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795
1795
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of a Phoenician bireme ship
1845-1964
Mercury stick barometer by Baptist Ronchetti
circa 1790; circa 1790
Newcomen Atmospheric Engine
1791
Irish Linen Industry
1791
Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE
2000-100 BCE
Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill
1730; 1967
Physionotrace of Madam Roland
1793
Lancaster canal shipping note
1794-03-03
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London
1795
Barton Aqueduct
circa 1793