Paper-making machine, Limehouse Board Mills, London, late 1980s.

Zinc and tin, 1869.

Tin of John Bell's toothpowder, c 1930-1960.

Blanchard's first ascent in a balloon, 2 March 1784.

'Dinner given to the Japanese Commisioners', c 1853-1854.

Blanchard's first balloon ascent, 2 March 1784.

Jaques Alexandre Cesar Charles, French experimental physicist, 1783.

Blanchard's first balloon ascent, 2 March 1784.

Charles Deane's diving demonstration at Portsmouth, c 1830.

John Sinclair, Scottish agriculturalist, 1798.

A selection of early draw tube refracting telescopes, early 18th century.

"Textile and wood workers, Egypt, c 1798."