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

George III's pendulum

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's friction machine

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Beam compass by George Adams

1775-1795

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

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

1978

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's clockwork bell

1761

George III's philosophical table

1761-1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

George III's glass sphere

1761

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

1762

George III's model crriage body

1762

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Two brass pillars for an air pump

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Brass framed repeating circle with case.

1815-1825

Diamond- pattern frame sextant.

1835-1845

Glass bulb, with collar, plug, tap and circular base plate

1761

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Brass pillar-frame sextant.

1795-1804

Rods for adjusting lucernal microscopes

1787-1800

Glass bowl on whirling stand

1734-1795

Scioptic ball, ostensibly by George Adams

Glass funnel from Nooth's apparatus

1775

Double sounding quintant.

1835-1845

Surveyor's compass

1695-1766

Surveyor's compass, English, 1725-1795

1725-1795

Brass pillar-frame sextant.

1810-1820

Box type pocket sextant.

1845-1850

Mahogany and brass octant.

1775-1785

Oval pattern-frame sextant.

1851-1856

Circular instrument dividing engine

1778