Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

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

Guilloché enamel watch displaying solar and sidereal time, by George Margetts

1790

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

1720-1800

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Footstool/spittoon, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Beale-type microscope

1871-1900

Child’s rocking chair commode, Europe, 1751-1850

1751-1850

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Set of cupping instruments in case, 19th century

1801-1900

Chinese mahogany toilet case

1871-1910

Three bar magnets in a box

Wet bulb thermometer for ballooning

1880

Thornycroft patent oil fuel sprayer

1921

Aurora globe by unknown maker

1800-1825

Medicine chest

1801-1850

Monochord with sound box in channel shaped base board

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Slider for harmonic wave apparatus

1831-1870

Peg board with ten pegs

Two tapering, open ended boxes

Cylindrical block with four vertical equidistant holes

Square lens holder with two securing clips

Frame to demonstrate parallelogram of forces

1752

Block with inclined ends, mahogany, brass