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Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

1720-1800

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

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

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

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

1790

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

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

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

1751-1850

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

1829

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Beale-type microscope

1871-1900

Footstool/spittoon, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Topping-type microtome, Europe, 1840-1850

1840-1850

Homeopathic medicine chest, London, England, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

1885

Earth Inductor, 1850-1875

1850-1875

Aquatic microscope by J. Cuff with extra stand No. 34 and fishskin case

1745

Mahogany case for planimeter patented 1904 by Connolly Brothers

Original model of Powell and Lealand Compound microscope

Instrument possibly used to observe atmospheric electricity

Universal microscope by George Adams the elder

1746

Apparatus to demonstrate the thermal expansion of liquids, mid 19th century.

1831-1870

Quekett's dissecting microscope

Wilson screw-barrel microscope

Cylindrical electrical machine

Two parabolic curves, mahogany

Portable field microscope

1870

Hydrostatical balance in mahogany case