Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
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

Divers Projets

1798

Half-penny coin

1799

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Watch with four outer cases, made by Edward Prior for the Turkish export market

1800

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

1796

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Barwise

1800

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

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

1794

Compass

1800

Under-painted horn pair cased watch by George Flote

1800

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

A skeleton clock designed to represent the terrestial globe by Henry Gratte

1800

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

circa 1795

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1799

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

shadow ball

1800s

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

1793

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

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

1795

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

An Iron Foundery, Colebrook Dale

1799

Thomas Earnshaw

1798

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE