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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Clockmakers

1770

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

King George III

1752

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Richard Grindall's combined knife and fork, Europe, 1795-1820

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Pair of Tongs

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Cylindrical form of Napier's bones

Mathematics

c. 1700