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Posset pot with Chinese decoration

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1750

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

Asian Medicine

1771-1800

Memento mori ring remembering Augusta Bruce, Europe, 1701-1800

Wellcome (general)

1701-1800

Telescope by John Yarwell.

Optics

1685-1695

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

George III's weighted cylinder

King George III

1762

George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

Altitude quadrant

Astronomy

1552

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

'Siderius Nuncius Magna' and 'Dissertatis cum Sideris Nuncio'

Printed Books

1610-1611

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Genoese medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1562-1566

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

Dentistry

1720-1800

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

Asian Medicine

1750-1800

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1601-1700

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a harp, France, 1701-1800

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Upper denture, Europe, 1701-1800

Dentistry

1701-1800

Infant feeding bottle, Europe, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1800

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

Pharmacy-ware

1617-1700

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Glass pharmacy bottle with crest

Medical Glass-ware

1600-1800

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

Weighing & Measuring

1601

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

Weighing & Measuring

1601

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

Mathematics

1574

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

Time Measurement

1660-1665

Mahogany pulley orrery

Astronomy

1750-1775

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1640

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769