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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

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Posset pot with lid

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1800

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Model diving bell

King George III

before 1753

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

Dentistry

1701-1800

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Male urinal, Netherlands, 1740-1760

Public Health & Hygiene

1740-1760

Hand painted Indian cotton fabric

Textile Industry

1700-1800

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

George III's glass sphere

King George III

1761

Chatelaine, England, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

Paul Sandby

1784

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752