Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

12 inch architectonic sector in ivory and silver

1733-1795

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Anamorphic picture, early 18th century, with cone mirror, wooden cover and two anamorphic pictures

1745-1753

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Aquatic microscope by Adams

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks

1762

Frictional electrostatic machine

1780

Brass sector by George Adams, 1756-1760, with fishskin case

1756-1760

Surveyor's compass used by James Watt

circa 1760

Two inclined cylinders for centre of gravity demonstrations

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Compound monocular microscope by George Adams

1775-1800

Demonstration apparatus for screw action

1762

Fixed weights for experiments with the balance

1762

Mercury thermometer in brass frame, 1775-1785

1775-1785

Surveyor's compass, English, 1725-1795

1725-1795

Knife edged prism for centre of gravity experiments

1762

Optical 'paradox' toy for seeing through opaque objects

1790-1800

King's electrical orrery

1760-1770

Double-barrelled air pump, late 18th century.

1766-1795

Brass truncated cone

1761

Terrella, c. 1765.

1760-1770

Waywiser, British, 1771-1800

1771-1800