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Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Sundial making tool

Time Measurement

1690-1710

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

Mathematics

1654

Demainbray's cometarium

King George III

1750-1760

Plane table board for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830

Set of architect's drawing instruments by various

Mathematics

Surveyor's sector, early 17th century

Mathematics

early 17th century

Wollaston-type optometer, unsigned, British, c. 18

Optics

1825-1835

Wine diagonal, 1797-1826.

Mathematics

1797-1826

Slide rule for interest calculations

Mathematics

1824

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

Cinematography

1850-1910

Small prospect glass (or opera or spyglass), ivory

Optics

1745-1755

Napier's bones

Mathematics

1671-1700

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

King George III

1737-1752

Rectangular reclining sundial

Time Measurement

1592

Turned massage ball encased in turned socket

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Navigation slide rule, c.1800.

Mathematics

1780-1800

Allan's electromagnetic generator.

Electricity Supply

1852

Set of Marquois scales for drawing parallel lines

Mathematics

1900-1930

Moulding plane: shallow flute moulding type, with

Hand and Machine Tools

1770-1817

Gilt customs and excise standard no 1 (Sikes) hydr

Experimental Chemistry

1870-1930

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Venice (Italy)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Boxwood fathom marker, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Chinese Geomancer's compass

Navigation

1800-1880

Terrestrial hand telescope, 6-draw, vellum body, s

Optics

1675-1685

Slide rule, boxwood, 2 foot; one slide, engraved:-

Mathematics

Boxwood slide rule by Stanley, Great Turnstile, Ho

Meteorology

1860-1880

Timber Slide Rule

Mathematics

1789-1810

'New Improved' universal compound microscope

Optics

1785-1795

Hotbed soil thermometer, 1870-1875

Heat

1870-1875

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods, four missing

Mathematics

1690-1710

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Trieste (Italy)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820

Nocturnal

Time Measurement

1702

Improved Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

Heat

1850-1900

Boxwood fathom marker, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Mercury-in-glass thermometer

Heat

1850-1924

Mercury-in-glass thermometer

Heat

1850-1924

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

Heat

1850-1900

Boxwood scale with wet bulb depression and baromet

Meteorology

Refracting terrestrial telescope by Mann & Ayscoug

Optics

1740-1750

Boxwood sector (6-inch) by W.F Stanley & Company,

Mathematics

1876

Cased set of thermometers

Heat

1850-1924

Hand reading glass, in horn mount, 1701-1750 (see

Optics

1701-1750