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Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

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

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

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

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Model diving bell

King George III

before 1753

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

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

Male urinal, Netherlands, 1740-1760

Public Health & Hygiene

1740-1760

George III's glass sphere

King George III

1761

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Albarello drug jar used for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1731-1770

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Demainbray's polemoscope

King George III

1701-1752

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

King George III

1752

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

Time Measurement

1715

Pair-cased pocket watch

Time Measurement

1705-1737

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Clay tobacco pipe, 1720-1770, English

Smoking

1720-1770

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Barrel and Device from George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

Microscopes

1752

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Demainbray's scioptric ball

King George III

1745-1755

Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

King George III

1700-1752

Thin-walled square glass bottle

King George III

1761

Demainbray's yellow disc

King George III

1745-1755

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Altazimuth theodolite

Surveying

1755-1765

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.