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Napier's bones

Mathematics

1671-1700

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Demainbray's scioptric ball

King George III

1745-1755

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Albarello drug jar used for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1731-1770

Double-ended dental pelican

Dentistry

1651-1780

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Tobacco jar carved in the form of human skull and snake

Smoking

1701-1800

Clay tobacco pipe, maker unknown, made in England,

Smoking

1730-1770

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

Dentistry

1701-1800

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

Pharmacy-ware

1671-1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Tinder pistol

Smoking

1750-1800

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

Silver pair-cased astronomical watch

Clockmakers

1660

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Upper denture, Europe, 1701-1800

Dentistry

1701-1800

George III's clockwork bell

King George III

1761

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

Clockmakers

1770-1800

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold 1776-7

Clockmakers

1776

Gold verge watch with red and blue champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

Clockmakers

1650

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Cupellation furnace

Metallurgy

1696-1700

Longcase clock movement by Thomas Bradford c. 1692

Clockmakers

1690-1695

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

Time Measurement

1660-1665

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

Wooden lathe mandrel for turning of flutes

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725-1755

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Harrison's eight-day wooden clock movement, 1715.

Time Measurement

1715

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

Firefighting

1680

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

Microscopes

1752

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1720-1800

Infant feeding bottle, Germany, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1800

Samuel Morland's calculating machine

Mathematics

1666-1695

wheel cutting machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1668-1672 Probable