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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

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

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

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

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

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

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

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

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

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

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

Clay tobacco pipe, maker unknown, made in England,

Smoking

1730-1770

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

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

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

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

George III's clockwork bell

King George III

1761

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold 1776-7

Clockmakers

1776

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Wooden lathe mandrel for turning of flutes

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725-1755

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739