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Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

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

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Napoleon's Toothbrush, Europe, 1790-1821

Dentistry

1790-1821

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Wooden statue of St Michael the Archangel, Spain, 1700-1850

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1700-1850

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

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

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Vaccination lancet, London, England, 1822-1850

Public Health & Hygiene

1822-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

Mathematics

1666-1680

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

Experimental Chemistry

1774-1831

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Police truncheon

Wellcome (general)

1800-1850

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1650-1725

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

Willem van de Velde

1744-1774

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