Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

1720-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

King George III's friction machine

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Slide rule for calculation of treadwheel labour

1823

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

1740-1753

Demainbray's optical model

1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

1752

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

1760-1772

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

1751-1850

Beale-type microscope

1871-1900

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

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

1829

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

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

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Footstool/spittoon, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

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

Leyden jar, early 19th century.

1800-1850

Leyden jar

Wooden ball

Two rebated mahogany blocks and seven steel screws

Conductor

Body tube of nautical refracting telescope

1800

Wooden tray with 25 thin metal discs, a ceramic cone, a lens and wooden fragment

1800-1850

Protractor and Coordinatograph

Fulminating pane