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

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

George III's glass sphere

1761

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

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

1978

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Oval shaped watch by Sampson Shelton

1640

George II's Grand Orrery

1733

Apparatus for filling barometer tube

1761

Circular instrument dividing engine

1778

Large Vernier Calliper for Manufacturing Large Calibre Weapons, 1826-1867

1826

Striker mechanism, for use with falling body acceleration demonstrations

1762

Motion and Velocity Illustration Instrument

1762

Rods for adjusting lucernal microscopes

1787-1800

Glass flask; glass stopper; brass capped

1761

Glass bowl on whirling stand

1734-1795

Scioptic ball, ostensibly by George Adams

Brass disc for air pump, 1761

1761

Brass disc for air pump, 1761

1761

globe

1761

Attachment for the pillar of the philosophical table

1762

Two brass pulley blocks by Adams

1762

Brass Arm for wind fountain

1761

Glass funnel from Nooth's apparatus

1775