Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

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

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's glass sphere

1761

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

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 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

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Oval shaped watch by Sampson Shelton

1640

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Greenhouse thermometer by Dudley Adams of Fleet Street. Mercury in glass on wooden board

1978

Apparatus to Demonstrate Chemical Action Under Reduced pressures

1761

Brass truncated cone

1761

Magnetic toy

1765

Waywiser, British, 1771-1800

1771-1800

Universal Equatorial Sundial.

Two inclined cylinders for centre of gravity demonstrations

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Demonstration apparatus for screw action

1762

Fixed weights for experiments with the balance

1762

Two foot geodetic theodolite, 1826-1828

1826-1828

Box type pocket sextant.

1845-1850

Prismatic compass, 1851-1856

1851-1856

Double sounding quintant.

1835-1845

Surveyor's compass

1695-1766

Surveyor's compass, English, 1725-1795

1725-1795

Oval pattern-frame sextant.

1851-1856

Apparatus for 'Oil of Oranges' Experiment

1762