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Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Wooden acupuncture model

Asian Medicine

1681

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

1666-1667

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Marine timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Whole model, full rigged, of ship of the line, H.M.S. 'Prince'

Water Transport

1670

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Morland's calculating machine, engraved "Samuel Morland, Inventor, 1666"

Mathematics

1666-1680

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

Willem van de Velde

1744-1774

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1650-1725

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

Mathematics

1654

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1690-1710

Chatelaine, England, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

Asian Medicine

1701-1800